I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

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

For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

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