I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that.

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'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.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

We [ with Ewan McGregor] decided exactly what we would do at every moment, what the texture would be.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.

One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.