Mahira Khan Quotes

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

I saw Mani sir's 'Bombay,' and I wanted to be a Mani sir heroine.

The first film I watched was 'Soldier,' and then 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam' and 'Bade Miyan Chote Miyan.'

I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

I am a film buff.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.

'Rangeela' and 'Daud' are both exciting films. The songs, the music, the dances - they all blend so well.

I love performances that move me, like Waheeda Rehman in any of her roles.

Mani Ratnam is my biggest inspiration.

But I'm very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Kapoor.

Pooja Bhatt is a very good director.

I still consider 'Vaastav' and Raj Kumar Santoshi's 'Pukar' two of my better films, though I admit nothing great happened thereafter.

I'd love to work with Vishal Bhardwaj and Imtiaz Ali.

Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it's the role that matters to me.

I wasn't a film buff.

Somehow, Hindi movies never took me in the same way Hollywood films did. Even at the age of five or six, I could see the difference in the quality of execution.

Karan Johar is absolutely an amazing director. I dream to work with Karan.

I have grown up watching Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar movies. Naturally, I aspire to be a part of their kind of cinema.

Directing a Hindi movie for the first time was easy because Hindi films have been batwing doors for me since 1992.

I am very much open to Bollywood and would love to work in great stories.

I remember, at one point, I was actually studying it kind of intensively around 2001, when Hrithik Roshan was big. I wanted to learn more about it, as I've always been intrigued by the craft of Bollywood, in that how well they were shot in glorious widescreen. I would actually go to see Bollywood films in the theaters in New York and New Jersey.

I did not have any inclination towards cinema. The atmosphere at home was not filmy, and we would never discuss anything related to films.