That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam — Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation further with myself, some other individual pops up, like David McKenzie did, with this idea of making this film [Teknolust], and provides exactly the leap to the next adventure.

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

I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

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