A Quote by Shaheer Sheikh

I would love to do films, but the script has to excite me. — © Shaheer Sheikh
I would love to do films, but the script has to excite me.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
I have done many films across the globe and would love to be a part of Bollywood, but the script must have a strong character for me.
When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.
The films that excite me most tend to be the films that seem like voices that we haven't heard of before.
If the script doesn't excite me, there's no point working on the music.
Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.
I'd like to get into the superhero genre. I'd love to do either a DC or a Marvel character. I just love the way they're approaching these characters in these films. I also would love to get back into some romantic films. I love romance films, especially between people of color, because we don't really explore that enough. I would love to do that.
When I listen to a script I don't think too deeply, my thought is 'will it excite me to do this?' I don't overthink.
Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.
I will continue to do films that excite me.
What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.
At the end of the day, my bread and butter comes from films, so I have to work in films that may not have a great script, but give me a fat pay cheque.
Once cannot know if the film is going to be a hit or not so as an actor I choose films that excite me.
Comedy films never die, all they need is a good script instead of merely relying on humour. That said, I would love to portray more characters like the one I play in 'Perariyathavar.'
In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.
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