Ajay Naidu

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

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.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

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.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

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.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

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.