I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.