Everyone equates good cinema with boring shots and boring films – where a character takes 10 minutes to walk down a corridor, and still nothing happens at the end of the shot. Those films tried to be cool and fashionable by dispensing with drama, which, in my opinion, is absolute nonsense. Naseeruddin Shah Read Quote
A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don’t think those kinds of scripts ever work. Naseeruddin Shah Read Quote
When my bank balance runs low, then I sign a big Bollywood monstrous movie, and I make sure that I am safe for the next few years. Naseeruddin Shah Read Quote
The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things. Naseeruddin Shah Read Quote
As an actor, you have got to learn your job as thoroughly as you can. If you know your job, then there’s nothing that can stop you. Because the bottom line is that only good actors will get work. Naseeruddin Shah Read Quote
To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts. Naseeruddin Shah Read Quote
I realise that I have made quite a few of the same mistakes with my kids that my dad made: not so much in trying to determine their lives for them but in terms of trying to discipline them. Naseeruddin Shah Read Quote
