I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

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

If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.

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.

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

I remember when I first started to be photographed, people couldn't understand how it was possible to go around with no eyelashes, no eyebrows. Now it's much more accepted for people not to wear eyelashes or lipstick or whatever they do, but then it was quite freaky. Um, a kind of boiled look.

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