’[Jim Jarmusch] wanted to create a couple that were complementary – and contradictory – but they accepted each other for their contradictory nature. So Adam is dark and melancholy and brooding and intense… his first sentence was ‘Adam is kind of like Hamlet as might once have been played by Syd Barrett’, which made me laugh. I thought it was a wonderful image.’ ~ Tom Hiddleston on ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, TIFF 2013