Naseeruddin Shah Quotes

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

Nothing has changed that much, even during filmmaking for 'The Descendants.' I wrote. I took the kids to school. I cleaned the house. And I had dinner with George Clooney.

I like working on big budget films.

Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before.

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.