I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

n our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

South Sudan is the youngest nation on the planet.

The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.