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.

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.

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

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.

When you are young you are fascinated by so many things. Some things drop, some stay. I can be without anything but I cannot be without nature.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.