Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

For us, the pressure comes from internal matter of having recorded eight records.

Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.

I like to just work with great directors.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.

I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I remember the first time I saw 'Frances Ha' and was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life movies. Then I thought, 'Why am I not doing it?'

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.