I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.