Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think about much at all, as it turns out. It's very easy. And then when you step into the director's role, there's this whole universe of stuff that you have to pay attention to that's amazing to me.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

The experience of shooting a film is about the script, the captain of the ship who is the director, and the way they push their actors and teams to give their best. It's not about the language and the region.

As a director, I start with the visual.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

I love directing.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.