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.

In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.

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

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

[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.