Rajkumar Hirani Quotes

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Few years ago, it was completely different. Now you go to any country, city, or continent and just say 'Bollywood,' and they will know. So, it means everybody is watching everything.

Personally, the films I love include 'Black Friday,' 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai,' 'Love Sex Aur Dhoka,' and 'Zindagi Na Milege Dobara' because they work at the box office and are complete packages.

A lot of expectations come from a Shoojit Sircar film, especially after 'Piku.'

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.

Bollywood is a strange world.

We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

Films have always been youth oriented.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

'Barfi!' was a beautiful film. I'm proud to be associated with it.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

I feel somewhere in 2016 every Bollywood movie was starting to have at least one hip-hop track which got it the mainstream vibe.

I hoped 'Tashan' would be a clutter-breaker.