Karan Johar Quotes

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

I cry at movies.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying.

Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.

I don't know, I always had an active dream life, and there's something so profound and wonderful about a movie. It's so alive. It's so shared. The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.

What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it's just what's inside of that frame. It's going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that's my focus.

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

For me, cinema is happiness.

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.

I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'

I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'

For me, every film is an interesting experience.