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

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.

The only real struggle [in Doctor Strange] was casting spells - learning all these amazing things with fingers, and then remembering what to say at the same time. They would say, 'So you have to put your hands there, not there because the light is going to go [MAKES SOUND] so that kind of masks... but it was all good.

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?

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

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.