I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.

This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.

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

The story, it's really important to The Ancient One that Doctor Strange does cut it because The Ancient One needs a successor, or certainly needs - you could say - a son. So The Ancient One is really invested in Doctor Strange, it's a very kind of primal relationship.

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

When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.