Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

My heart broke open and history fell in.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?