You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.

I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.