Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Rajkumar Hirani - Page 2

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that has to do with the writing.

Making a film confusing does not make it intelligent.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

Taking nuances from real life will help you make scenes that have never been done before. It keeps the story interesting.

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

I don't think anything comes naturally; you just have to work very hard.

I am not really worried about how others perceive me.

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it on the judgement of your trusted ones and the audiences.

I've often been asked why my shot-taking is not stylish, why I don't think about visual statements. The truth is, style is irrelevant. I never think of the shot as much as I think of the characters and what they are saying and doing.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is the only man I see around who makes films because he thinks 'this is a story that needs to be told, so let's tell it.'

I love 'Rang De Basanti.'

I try and get what I want using the strengths that the actors have.

100 years of Indian cinema has happened. Anything you do, feels like it has already been done. The struggle is to find a new and unique idea.

Someday I want to really talk about religion and blind faith. I explored astrologers, palmistry etcetra at length till I believed it was a scam. Even in '3 Idiots' I take a dig at them.

The longest break I have taken in my life was 14 days. On the 15th day, I started getting impatient to start work again.

I'm absolutely open to scripts written by someone else.

Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to work with a team.

I edit as I write and shoot. Any extra line, any pause that I know will get chopped on the editing table is done away with then and there.

Very honestly, I don't feel 'Munnabhai' is a comedy film. I seriously feel it is a very emotional film.

I prefer to be a director and a narrator rather than a writer.

You never know the depth of an actor.

Religion is man-made. Every religion says my 'God is the best.'

I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more colorful.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

I like human-interest movies that are light-hearted.

You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.

I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.

I like Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and Hrithik Roshan. I would love to work with them all.

Most biopics are stories of people who achieve something. It's an easier graph, a rags-to-riches story, or wanting something and reaching that. Sanju's life is not actually a case like that.

I don't understand why we learn what we do for most of it is of no use to us in our careers. To get a grade, students learn just about everything and later none of this is relevant. Grades become more important than learning.

Scale is very easy actually. Put a camera on a jib or a drone and get bloody big shots on big sets, it's very easy. But then you're distracted. If you're looking at the shot, you aren't following the story any more.

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

Every film is a journey.

Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while writing, directing and editing a film, I would have lived it 5000 times. Naturally, one tends to loose objectivity.

For me, cinema is happiness.

Nagpur was a very small town. There was no exposure to different kinds of films or world cinema. Only Manmohan Desai films.

Chase excellence, success will follow