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.

The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and The Ancient One has got the knowledge. And so what you're seeing today is a part of the whole training section when he's learning the moves and digging deep. So it's all about that, it's all about trying to push him to get there.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

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