Saqib Saleem Quotes

Working with Robert Redford would be an unbelievable dream come true.

There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

I always loved movies. I wanted to be in them! I always saw them and said, 'How do you do that?' It seemed like going to the moon. It was not a rational thought, but that's the only thing I wanted to do.

When I got out of school, I didn't really understand the differences in the different aspects of the business. For example, doing a play - where does that take you versus, you know, concentrating on independent films? You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily.

To try to crack into Hollywood, it's a dream come true.

Acting is my passion since childhood, and I am happy to be in Tinsel Town at a very young age.

Right now, my bucket list is to do a Hollywood movie.

I have always wanted to work with Rajshri Productions.

My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.

I don't own Hollywood.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

Being an actor has always been my dream.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

I'd love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I've made get a wide release. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.