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.

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.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

I'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and nothing is planned at all. But one link is with The Deep End, and one link is that I'm making a film later on that revolves around the relationship between an innocent party and a dead body.

I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.