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" One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios. "

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" Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm. "

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" I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them and up for the mayhem ahead. But at the same time, I remember noticing I was relieved this thing was present in me. And I hadn't realised there might be a doubt. "

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" I'm a huge Marvel fan, and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking - I think, if anything, that it dignifies the comics, and it says, 'Yeah. This is a strong enough, robust enough source. We can bend it; it's elastic. It's bouncy.' "

" 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. "

" I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me. "

" I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them. "

" I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character. "

" I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs. "

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" I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it. "

" More and more, there are things in my life that I find hard to say. Like, 'David Bowie and Lorde were at my birthday party.' She's a phenomenal spirit. "

" Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship. "

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" The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists. "

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" I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had. "

" I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie. "

" I'm amazed now whenever I go back to London. I'm like, 'Wow. I used to kind of swing up these streets when I knew how this machine worked.' And then when you don't, you lose that. You need to get your license back. I do know how to plant a garden and keep chickens, but I don't know how to do much else. "

" It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it. "

" I'm very often referred to as 'Sir' in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this. "

" I find myself apologising for not being a proper actor. I never intended to be involved in the film industry and still do feel that, with the exception of a couple of brief skirmishes with the film industry. "

" My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane' when I didn't have a record player. I had this record for a year before I could play it, and it was the image - not the sound - that I was attracted to. I just saw this image and thought he was my cousin. "

" I don't have a career, I have a life. I don't have an exterior judgment on what would be good or bad for me. "

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" What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film. "