Naseeruddin Shah Quotes

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

If you do not have a good script, then no matter what the genre is, the film will not be a success.

If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.

You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.

Be it films or shows or plays, it's the content that matters the most.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

A film only works when its content works. The visuals can be breathtaking, but if the content is not good, it won't work.

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

Directing is a tremendous art.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.