Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

Before the release of my film, small or big, the feeling is always the same.

You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.

With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.

You do a play, or you go on set for the first day of filming: if you don't have nerves, and you don't have any kind of adrenalin pushing you forward, then something is wrong.

Filming is such a nerve-wracking and stressful process for me. I love it so much, and it's so fun, but I never have a time to fully appreciate it until after I'm done and I get to step back and look back at it.

I'm excited and nervous about every film; once I understand the medium fully, I'll relax.

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact, if you set out to make a film thinking that it will make 100 crores, it never ends up making that much money.

One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.

I'm still nervous before I start any episode. I never feel completely secure, and I love that.

A product can turn bad, not the production. When you start a film, you feel it will be great. But sometimes, as it progresses, it fails somewhere. You can't blame anyone for that. You can blame only your own intelligence!

Every movie I do, regardless of how they fare at the box office, excites me.

I am very excited about 'Raees.' But more than this, I am nervous, too. It feels like I am under pressure to show my acting skills.

You always feel a degree of insecurity about getting through a film.

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

I remember being on Atonement and it felt very right to be there. There was so much excitement every day. I remember very vividly how it felt to be a child on a film set, and that is actually really important to hold on to for as long as you continue to make films.

That's the process of making the film and it isn't until the world puts their eyes to it that you find out if it's creating any kind of connection at all. But every single film at some stage of the film I think, "I wonder what this is going to be?"

I definitely pay attention to details. I think one of the hardest things about making a movie is that it can be scrutinized over and over again. If anything just isn't right, it's going to take you out of the film.

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.