Saqib Saleem Quotes

Directing a Hindi movie for the first time was easy because Hindi films have been batwing doors for me since 1992.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I just need good scripts, good films, and I am glad I am doing them.

Modeling and my films in the South helped groom me for Bollywood and I had the confidence it required.

But I'm very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Kapoor.

Karan Johar is absolutely an amazing director. I dream to work with Karan.

It is always good to be cast in films with good stories and content, made by such amazing banners and directors. For an actor it's a task to work in films like these.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

When I was shooting 'Mud,' every day was my favourite! I had so much fun on this film and loved working with all the cast and crew! It was a great experience.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

Filming 'Bad Santa' was really where I learned everything that I knew at that point about movies. That was really the first big thing that I had done.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of.