62 Quotes by Riz Ahmed

The 'Bourne' films totally reimagined and elevated the action genre.

Multiculturalism isn't just a buzzword; it's not just something to debate - I am multiculturalism.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

I've been very lucky to have played a variety of characters, and they weren't defined by their race.

Sometimes when you're inside a story, it's almost better if you don't think too much about its wider cultural significance or if you don't think about how audiences might react to it. That takes you out of the reality of the situation you're committing to as you're telling the story.

There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.

Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

Nothing will turn you into more of a 'Star Wars' fan than being on a 'Star Wars' set. When you see how lovingly that world is rendered by the set designers, costume designers, props department, art department, they genuinely build an actual world. That is not an exaggeration. They build a world.

When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I'm British-Pakistani. But now I kind of feel like, in this day in age, this is what British looks like. It looks like me; it looks like Idris Elba, and hopefully through Nasir Khan, people will see that that's what an American can look like as well.