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.

I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

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

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

I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.