Quotes by Karan Johar - Page 2

I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Action
Aggression
Capable
Direct
Incapable
Inherent
Violence
Worst
Choice
Films
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Ceo
Principal
Today Day Will
My Friend
Shared
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I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Movie Star
Royalty
Value System
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I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Audience
Entertaining
Serious
Good Always Believe
Good Believe Bad
Works
Good Believe Always
Connect
Vast
Films
Firmly
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I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Emulate
Love Myself Me
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I was one of the first early Twitter users from the film fraternity. And back then in 2009, I thought I was going to enter a world where people liked me, knew me, knew my work - it was going to be fine! All about the love, not the hate. And it was. At first.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Fraternity
Users
Love Work Hate
Enter
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There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Deep Love
Love Relationship Respect
Connect
Downs
Dynamic
Ours
Ups
Ups And Downs
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Definite
Family Unit
Spouse
Void
Life Family Marriage
Emotionally
Fills
Unit
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives, it's part of our culture we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Religious
Sleep
Song
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Dance
Celebrate
Cinema
Function
Indian
Our Lives
Song And Dance
Traditional
Wake Up
Grown
Product
Wake
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Pet
Life Me Will
All My Life
Official
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Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Defence
Force
Moral
Offence
Police
Police Force
Profession
Qualifications
Training
Understanding
Actual
Degree
Full-Time
Longer
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I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Big Things
Filmmaker
Talent
Versatile
Life Myself I Am
Lie
Rarely
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I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
Karan Johar / Film Director
New York
Bollywood
Chelsea
Couple
Euphoric
Gay
Holding Hands
Mountain
Filming
Couples
Crying
Holding
Neighbourhood
Packed
Reaction
Viewing
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Acceptance
Approval
Celebrate
Communicate
Quintessential
Worry
Commercial
Loves
Seek
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I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Dance
Cinema
Decision
Doubtful
Hindi
News
Shocking
Sly
Buff
Both My Parents
Breaking
Director
Closet
Looked
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Cool
Pressure
Thinking
Best Thinking Me
Cool Best Me
Sure
Simply
Extra
None
Options
Personal
Yes
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Five
Half
Only Child
Puppy
Sun
Ten
Looking
Child
Fat
Boy
Came
Dismissed
Head
Marks
Though
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Cinema
Mainstream
Love Movies Cinema
Love Movies Way
Certain Way
Cluttered
Corrupted
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My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Aspect
Judging
Passion
Reality
Reality Tv
Satisfied
Talk
Tv
Film Making
Behind
Show
Camera
Defines
Else
Everything Else
Grounds
Happiest
Hosting
My Life
Primary
Result
Talk Show
Tv Show
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I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Reasonable
Well Done
Disasters
Hugh
Recent
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Bombay
Break
Decision
Direct
Perception
Sensibility
Unfortunate
Work Good Bad
Attempt
Certain Level
Gel
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Emotion
Flip
Good News
Irritating
Relative
Traffic
Tweet
Annoys
Endings
Immediately
Phone Call
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Awe
Carpet
Ceremony
Film
Hindi
India
Long
Oscars
Red
Red Carpet
Speech
Want
Winning
Life God Moment
Life God Walk
Hold
Walk
Line
Magical
Moment
Oscar
Rehearsed
Trophy
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I'm sad, upset, and disheartened with the trolling that happens on social media... At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting. And then they say, 'Why don't you speak about your sexuality? You could be iconic in this country.' But I don't want to be iconic anywhere. I want to live my life.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Sad
Country
Disheartening
Happens
Iconic
Media
Sexuality
Social
Social Media
Speak
Upset
Whole
Life Sad Your
Why
Anywhere
End Of The Day
My Life
They Say
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Graduation
Dad
Box Office
Five
Grandmother
Loan
Lost
Office
Pay
Box
Complete
Sell
Films
Hugely
Hyped
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I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Legacy
Adopt
Emotionally
Huge Responsibility
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Instinct
Paramount
Susceptible
Assistant
Based
Director
Hired
Human Being
Later
Room
Purely
Spaces
Walked
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Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Legal
Dna
Granted
Important
Kind
Mistrust
Protect
Unfortunate
Relationship Me Important
Bond
Legally
Professional
Soft
Tend
Tuned
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Candid
Decency
Host
Pretense
Sensitivity
Vocabulary
Directly
Member
Talk Show
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical...it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Children
Party
Thinking
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
Karan Johar / Film Director
Wedding
Cinema
Cover
Crying
Invariably
Magical
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I find myself asking questions that as a filmmaker I never thought I would ask. Like I get a call from a magazine for a feature and my first question is, 'Cover or not?' Interview invite from a leading channel? I have stopped asking the topic. I'm just like 'Primetime or not?' If I am invited and put in the second row, I can be distraught for days!
Karan Johar / Film Director
Asking Questions
Filmmaker
Myself I Am I Can
Myself I Am Never
Channel
Cover
Feature
Interview
Invite
Leading
Magazine
Question
Row
Second
Topic
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