We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

I mean, even in terms of the Marvel universe, this [Ancient One character] is going on a side street into a major piazza that Marvel hasn't even been to before, because it's all about creation and not so much about destruction and forestalling destruction, it's about your mind.

I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud a while ago. He is, as you probably know, an extremely erudite thinker in terms of religious philosophy and just thinking about a modern take on something really, really ancient, about how to imagine living beyond any physical bounds, which we're on the verge of now.

Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.