Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Sajid Khan
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I like the challenge of making people do things which seem unthinkable.
Being single I feel is a boon - why do you guys want me to push me into hell by getting me married?
The truth is you may be far happier as a bachelor, but you are far more at peace as a father.
By the age of 13-14, I realized that I could make people laugh. So I started dancing, doing mimicry, and even playing music.
My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.
'Heyy Babyy' needed fast cutting and eye contact. It didn't need fancy camera angles.
I have always been a director at heart.
No man at the beginning of a relationship tells the woman the truth. Initially, he just wants to have fun.
I do not why the critics don't like my work. I guess I do not make films that they like.
Among close friends and family members, I say whatever I want to. But, as a filmmaker, I have my responsibilities, and I have to look at so many things at the time of finalizing a script.
I have broken a lot of hearts, I have lied, I have cheated, I have deceived, like most of the guys do. But I was on television, I was getting successful, I was getting brasher. I was treating women very badly.
I had done 17 drafts of 'Heyy Babyy' before the final screenplay emerged. It's actually based on the wild lifestyle of a friend. In fact, when he saw 'Heyy Babyy' he threatened to sue me and said I'd better pay him royalty.
People think I am arrogant, I don't think so. I cannot be arrogant at all... I am basically a lower middle class person by heart.
The only pressure on me is that I should never disappoint my audience.
I don't think I can create films just for critics. It's just not me.
I think I had become over-confident in my approach towards my work and with people around me. I admit that I'd started sounding pompous and self-obsessed.
I realized I have to be politically correct and easy. I was taking myself too seriously, I had become rude.
One has to be careful about the kind of content that's shown in films or on television.
One host I love watching is Billy Crystal. His hosting was never scripted, it was organic.
Cinema is a medium which makes you forget your worries and present a world which you can never be a part of.
'Heyy Babyy' is a modern yet very traditionally Indian film - you can watch it with your entire family.
Hosting should be organic, and boring an audience with your hosting is the worst you can do.
If you are a good actor then you are good at comedy.
Comedy is basically action but you get the reaction on laughter.
I wanted people to respect me as a filmmaker. 'Heyy Babyy' did well, then 'Housefull' did well, so I wanted people to take me seriously.
I don't indulge in double meaning humor.
Somewhere at heart I am a kid; I have not grown, really.
After the success of 'Heyy Babyy,' 'Housefull' and 'Housefull 2' I was overly confident that 'Himmatwala' would set new records. Its failure was disheartening.
I would rather make a bad film which does well at the box office than a good film which does badly.
I have imbibed some Billy Crystal in me.
My mother wants me to settle down and have children! I'm aware that it's a mother's concern and I respect it. But I can't get married because I have to get married. I have to be in love with the woman I commit to.
I am not arrogant but yes I am rude.
The biggest difficulty in film industry today is not that of getting dates, actors or finance, but writers. We don't get writers. They are like heart surgeons with whom you need to meet after fixing an appointment.
Sajid Nadiadwala has been the strongest guiding light in my life. He and Farah are the only two people who I give full freedom to slap me in public, and I will keep my head down because they are my elder brother and sister.
When 'Himmatwala' didn't work, the negativity factor attached to the reviews were more pointed towards me. That's when I realized, that something has gone wrong.
Find me a nice girl and I will marry her!
All the nice girls in my life I have treated badly.
'Himmatwala' is one of my top five favorite Bollywood films and I'm very fortunate that my name is associated with the movie.
Maybe one day I could make a film which works at the box-office and the critics also like it.
After 'Humshakals,' the Sajid Khan bashing which followed, that was a little unnecessary. Genuinely.
I don't think Farah and I will make a film together. She is a director in her own right.
It's true that friendships in the film industry are fickle but that holds true for life in general.
But, I have greatest respect for women, and I never ever mock them or the institution of marriage or a committed relationship!
There's not a single man in this world who has not cheated on his woman at least once!
Stand in front of the firing squad with your head held high and take the bullets. It's okay, eventually the bullets will run out. You will fall down and rise again, no big deal.
In the late '80s, as a child, I used to shoot short films on my friend's wedding camera.
My training ground has been my interest in watching movies. Unlike most other directors, I haven't assisted anyone.
There are so many times where I may share a dirty joke or laugh at one, but the due restriction has to be there in one's head when it comes to the larger audience.
The biggest superstar of our country is Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, who I feel is the most gifted comedian of all times.
Some filmmakers make films to please themselves and a handful of critics, so they get 5-star reviews but their films don't run at the box office. I make films for the masses.
I think Akshay Kumar and Riteish Deshmukh are two gifted, talented comic actors who can pull off anything.
If anybody will ask about my ex, or exes, I will just smile. I'll never say anything negative because I think that's what being a gentleman is.
I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn't make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.
There were lots of perceptions about me, right from being gay to casting couch to being a drunkard to getting violent, none of what I am in real life.
There is always pressure. If you make a flop film then you are under pressure to make a hit film. If you make a hit film then you are under pressure to surpass your own standard or at least deliver another hit because the audience also has expectations.
I'd like to believe that I'm a good son, good brother, good uncle, good friend and a good human being.
Films don't change lives, nor are they made to change anything, their only purpose is to entertain.
You know that Sajid Khan is a brand name and that you will get a family entertainer from him. I will never change that.
We went bankrupt. My parents got divorced. I was going to a super-rich kids school and suddenly we had to shift to Shivaji Nagar slums. So I have had the experience of both lives.
The moment any film has song and dance sequences - where any time any character can start singing and dancing without any explanation - it can turn into a senseless film.
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