Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.

First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.