We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.

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

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.

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.