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

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

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

The only real struggle [in Doctor Strange] was casting spells - learning all these amazing things with fingers, and then remembering what to say at the same time. They would say, 'So you have to put your hands there, not there because the light is going to go [MAKES SOUND] so that kind of masks... but it was all good.

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

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.