100 Quotes by Rajkumar Hirani

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

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.

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.

See, most films are about achievers. You see a film like 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' or 'Dhoni.' Even 'Gandhi,' or the biopic on Lincoln. They end in triumph, on a high.

There's a big time influence Hrishikesh Mukherjee has always had on my work. I can watch 'Anand,' 'Golmaal' or 'Chupke Chupke' as many times as possible. I just really admire his kind of cinema.

Like every father who wants his son to be either an engineer or a doctor, my father wanted me to become a doctor. I never did.

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.

Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way to tell it in two and a half hours.