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All Quotes by author - Ajay Naidu
" Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together. "
Summer
School
Ideas
" All India radio was worldwide. "
Radio
Worldwide
India
" America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see. "
America
See
Own
" I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. "
Got
Up
School
" I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked. "
Got
Wicked
Which
" I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11. "
Early
Been
Working
" I hear music as narrative. "
Hear Music
Hear
Music
" I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. "
Paint
Me
Far
" I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory. "
Laboratory
Like
Working
" I think that I have sold out sometimes. "
Think
I Think
Out
" I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right. "
Rap
Right
Think
" It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right. "
You
Right
Important
" It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. "
Important
Stop
Creative
" It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe. "
Good
Important
Responsibility
" I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. "
Interesting
Present
Virtue
" My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out. "
College
Family
Say
" My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part. "
Job
Acting
Teacher
" Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. "
You
Work
Through
" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "
Rhythm
Storytelling
Hip-Hop
" The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying. "
Thinking
Camera
You
" The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window. "
Looking
Memories
You
" There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. "
Open
Sky
America
" The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian. "
Smithsonian
Turntable
Instrument
" We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally. "
You
Work
Within
" When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically. "
Big
Game
Get
" You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it. "
Work
Through
You
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