“There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much myst...” — Naseeruddin Shah Quote

There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much mysticism attached to it. But it's a craft like any other - it's something you have to work hard at.

There are some movies that you feel like doing because of the script. Some because it sounds like fun, some because that's the director you want to work with, some because it's a project that you want to be involved with, and some because you will be paid lots of money. But the bottom line is I must feel like doing it.

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.

Playing the good guy is boring. I love twisted, flawed characters.

I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.

Historically, we've attached a lot of shame to women and their bodies - probably since biblical times. It's a way that patriarchal societies have perpetuated.

Sci-fi fans are so interested in your character and so attached to the world that you've created.

You never want that attached to you as a player. You don't want to be attached to being injury-prone.

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.