Shaheer Sheikh Quotes

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I remember the first time I saw 'Frances Ha' and was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

When you are scripting, the scene, the dialogues, everything comes before you, taking final shape. That is truly the most creative aspect of filmmaking and that is what I enjoy the most.

I would love to do a commercial film. But my hero is the script.

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'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

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.

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.

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.