“Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies ...” — Saqib Saleem Quote

Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies with the same childlike enthusiasm.

I am a kid who grew up watching mainstream Hindi films like 'Sholay,' 'Satte Pe Satta' and 'Mr India.'

Whatever I have achieved in the industry is something I consider to be amazing.

In 'Race 3,' the only person I was scared of working with was Anil Kapoor.

Well, I would want 'Race 3' to change the course of my career, but whether that will happen is something which we will know only when the film releases.

It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.

The tattoo on my wrist has the letters 'ES,' which stands for 'elephant shoe.' It's something I used to say when I was younger instead of 'I love you' and it reminds me to remain childlike at times and to not take myself too seriously.

When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.