Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.

I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of films that may never see the light of day, so it ends up being exclusively about the content, material, the characters and the story. Things that you maybe wouldn't get an opportunity to do otherwise. So, as an actor, obviously it's so different.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film.... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.