Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on the top of a mountain. The film script that I was given wasn't an Asian man, so I wasn't asked to play an Asian man - I was asked to play an ancient Celtic person.

This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.

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

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.