Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Be obscure clearly.

I spend a substantial amount of my time endeavoring to fend off questions, and worry terribly that I might end up being too clear.

He who wars, walks in a mist, through which the keenest eyes cannot always discern the right path.

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.