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Daily Inspiration Quote by Sanjay Dutt

"A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me"

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There is a quiet flex in this line: the confidence of a veteran who doesn’t need hand-holding, only clarity. Sanjay Dutt frames acting as craft, not mystique. A “good script” and a “good brief” aren’t romantic notions of inspiration; they’re tools. The intent is practical, almost managerial: give me the material, give me the target, and I’ll deliver. For an actor whose career has moved through swaggering heroes, bruised antiheroes, broad comedy, and late-career gravitas, that stance reads like hard-earned professionalism rather than modesty.

The subtext is also about hierarchy and trust. He’s implicitly defending a director-led set: the director’s brief matters because it defines the film’s grammar, the emotional temperature, the boundaries of performance. Dutt isn’t asking for endless rehearsal-room psychotherapy. He’s asking for alignment. That’s a pointed cultural signal in an industry that loves the mythology of “genius” performances arriving from chaos. He’s arguing that the best work is engineered: intentions communicated, decisions made, expectations stated.

Context sharpens it. In Bollywood, where stars can dominate creative choices and scripts are sometimes fluid right up to the shoot, insisting on a solid script and clear direction is both a preference and a critique. It suggests a desire for discipline in a system that often runs on improvisation, ego, and last-minute fixes. Coming from Dutt, it’s also a bid for steadiness: a performer positioning himself as reliable, directable, and serious about the job.

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Dutt, Sanjay. (2026, January 17). A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-good-script-and-a-good-brief-from-the-director-77442/

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Dutt, Sanjay. "A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-good-script-and-a-good-brief-from-the-director-77442/.

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"A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-good-script-and-a-good-brief-from-the-director-77442/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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Sanjay Dutt (born July 29, 1959) is a Actor from India.

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