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. ”