I Want To Be Better At Staying

There's A Heroic Amount Of Effort That Goes Into Making Him [doctor Strange] A Superhero By The End Of The Film.

I'm Always Playing Characters With Intellects Profoundly Superior To Mine. That's Great Fun, Even Though It's As Much A Fantasy For Me As For The People Watching Me.

Only When Stephen Strange Has His Accident And Everything That He's Ever Had In His Life Falls Apart That He Becomes Pretty Monstrous. It's The Self-loathing Rage Of A Wounded Animal And He Doesn't Have A Coping Mechanism At All. It Ties In With The Discipline And The Magic Of This World.

The Story [in 12 Years A Slave] Serves As A Metaphor For The Fear Of Having Your Family Taken Away, And For Being Abused In Such A Horrific Way. I Lost It A Lot Of Times Watching That Film, Particularly When Seeing The Grace Of The Man When He Finally Makes It Back Home Aged, Changed, Forever Brutalized, And Yet He Apologizes To His Family For His Long Absence. That Was Such A Profoundly Moving Moment Capturing The Triumph Of Dignity Over The Disgraceful Behavior Of Those Involved In The Slave Trade.

I'm Interested In Art For All. I Don't Want It To Be Only The Sons And Daughters Of Tory Mps Who Get To See My Plays.