It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

Salman Rushdie

We are the storytelling animal.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Reality is a question of perspective.

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.

Wanting fame is a disease and one day I will want to be free from this disease, from this desire. Where fame doesn’t matter. Where just experiencing life and being okay with it is enough.

I’ve never looked to create an image where people fall in love with my face or style. It does cross my mind. But I’ve been trying to create a space for myself where I don’t depend on that.