Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.

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.

There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation.

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.

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

Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.

Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.