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

You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

There are parts that you can do them all your life, and no one knows you're even acting, and there are other parts which somehow - I think they say they 'pop' - people notice that you're in and you become an actor from the movies and people take you in a whole different way. Whether or not I can keep that ball rolling is another matter.

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.

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

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

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