Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

I know some directors get very involved in trailers and posters. Some even cut their own. I stay completely away from it. I just see my job as making a film.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call me. I just want to make a great project, and my focus is really all on that. And then I really don't read reviews. Like, you know, go on comment boards or anything.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.

When you're making a movie, you don't think about the outcome. That's something I'm grateful for: whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It's always just about the work at hand. That's the fun part. The other part is always something I've had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it's important.

Once I am done with the film, I don't worry about how many centres the film has released, what are the BO records, etc. As I have no knowledge of such things, feeling the pressure doesn't arise.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

Making commercial cinema is very tough.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

When it comes to art, you just need to be focused on doing a great thing. Not thinking all about the business.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

It's not like I wakeup everyday and say, 'You know what, I need to do a horror film.' Statistically it's only like forty percent of my output but it's a great ride and the fan base is really dedicated and that's always cool. When you're lucky enough to be in a good one it's fantastic.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

As soon as I finished film school I was thinking about, how do I get to feature films? It took about eight years, and I'm still working. Feature films was not the end goal. Feature films was one of the stages. Getting to the point of the Coen brothers or Tarantino, where you're writing your own material and have the budget to do it properly, that's the end goal, and I'm close to that.

Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time.