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Faith is in the eye of the beholder.
I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.
I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.
It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.
It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.
In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.
Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.
I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.
There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.
I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.
I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.
The stories I most love are about the benefits of being blown off course.
I don't really look like people in films; I look like people in paintings.
When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.
Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.
It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.
Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.
Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.
I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.
I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!
We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.
It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.
There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.
I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.
Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.
Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.
We [ with Ewan McGregor] decided exactly what we would do at every moment, what the texture would be.
How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?
I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.
Nobody is working for Marvel who isn't a super-fan. And it's run by the biggest super-fan of them all.
I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.
What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.
It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.
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.
Everybody thinks for one moment when they're pregnant that they're actually carrying the spawn of the devil.
I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.
I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.
Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.
The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.
I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.
Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
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.
I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.
We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.
Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.