The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

What bothers me is that the cinema - what Fox News calls the "wholesome cinema that our children are supposed to be able to see" - is so violent. I'm not even talking about the content. I'm talking about the way in which it's cut.

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

I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral message because that would exclude so many people from feeling that it was their film and it's important for a piece of work to feel owned by every member of the audience.

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

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

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