I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.

There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.