100 Quotes by Rajkumar Hirani

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

To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it's entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to a kid through an interesting story, he'll be hooked.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

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.

The only time you do not get nervous is when you are making your first film. At that time, just the joy of making a movie is so high that you do not care; you are happy to have finally made it. It is only later that you want your film to be seen and appreciated by people.

I can lock myself for months in the editing suite with no noise or distractions. It's fascinating to see the film taking shape.

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

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

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.