Quotes by Rajkumar Hirani - Page 2

A lot of medical problems are solved if doctors are nice to patients. If you can make them think positive, you may not need medication.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Medical
Doctors
Medication
Patients
Solved
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In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Spielberg
Streamlined
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I edit as I write and shoot. Any extra line, any pause that I know will get chopped on the editing table is done away with then and there.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Chopped
Edit
Extra
Pause
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I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.
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Intuition
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I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that has to do with the writing.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Advertising
Craft
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I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Scripts
Good Me Day
Inspires
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I have the highest respect for the concept of 'Advait' - the oneness of all humans - that is central to Indian culture, thought, and religion.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Religion
Humans
Indian
Indian Culture
Oneness
Central
Concept
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Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to work with a team.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Filmmaking
Art Work Painting
Collaborative
Unlike
Paints
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Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way to tell it in two and a half hours.
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Anecdotes
Half Hours
Compress
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At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Good Story
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When your first movie releases, in my case it was 'Munnabhai MBBS,' I was just relieved that it was out there. Just that sheer thought makes you happy.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Release
Sheer
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A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How I am going to shoot this?'
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Directing
Sets
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While we were filming 'Munna Bhai MBBS,' we didn't think we were doing some kind of mainstream cinema. I only knew that I was doing a different kind of cinema.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Filming
Different Kind
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See, most films are about achievers. You see a film like 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' or 'Dhoni.' Even 'Gandhi,' or the biopic on Lincoln. They end in triumph, on a high.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Triumph
Achievers
Gandhi
Lincoln
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So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it on the judgement of your trusted ones and the audiences.
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Judgement
Trusted
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But I don't think as film-makers it is our responsibility that every time we make a film we should be saying something. If you are entertaining people, that's more than enough.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Entertaining
Time Responsibility People
Entertaining People
Film-Makers
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To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it's entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to a kid through an interesting story, he'll be hooked.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Advice
Boring
Entertainment
Hooked
Interesting
Nobody
Changes
Explain
Preach
Wants
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Someday I want to really talk about religion and blind faith. I explored astrologers, palmistry etcetra at length till I believed it was a scam. Even in '3 Idiots' I take a dig at them.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Religion
Faith
Blind
Blind Faith
Length
Someday
Talk
Believed
Scam
Dig
Explored
Idiots
Till
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Dad had a huge influence on me. I really look up to him for his brave acts. He was an outspoken man. For him, if it was the right thing, he would stand up for the smallest guy around him.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Brave
Outspoken
Right Thing
Smallest
Acts
Dad Man Me
Huge Influence
Stand Up
The Right Thing
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Most biopics are stories of people who achieve something. It's an easier graph, a rags-to-riches story, or wanting something and reaching that. Sanju's life is not actually a case like that.
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Reaching
Graph
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There's a big time influence Hrishikesh Mukherjee has always had on my work. I can watch 'Anand,' 'Golmaal' or 'Chupke Chupke' as many times as possible. I just really admire his kind of cinema.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Admire
Cinema
Influence
Time Work Always
Big Time
Possible
Watch
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With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick to the truth. You cannot just say that I will change the climax because I do not like it.
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Climax
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Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who has produced my earlier films, is still a part of 'PK' and is presenting it. He is not a hands-on producer - he used to put a certain amount in the bank and give me the cheque book.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Amount
Book
Certain
Give Me
Presenting
Used
Bank
Cheque
Part
Earlier
Films
Hands-On
Put
Produced
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I grew up in Nagpur, and I first started enjoying the author Harishankar Parsai. He wrote mostly satire, essays on the current situation and social issues. He wrote many books and I think he was my first influence.
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Current Situation
Essays
Influence
Issues
Satire
Situation
Social Issues
Author
Books
Current
Enjoying
Mostly
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Scale is very easy actually. Put a camera on a jib or a drone and get bloody big shots on big sets, it's very easy. But then you're distracted. If you're looking at the shot, you aren't following the story any more.
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Bloody
Distracted
Scale
Sets
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I don't understand why we learn what we do for most of it is of no use to us in our careers. To get a grade, students learn just about everything and later none of this is relevant. Grades become more important than learning.
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Careers
Grades
Relevant
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That's a battle we are always fighting whenever we cut trailers or promos for films. We always wonder how much to say, and every filmmaker wants to say the minimum. You don't want to reveal your film and ruin the viewing experience.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Battle
Minimum
Trailers
Reveal
Ruin
Viewing
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Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while writing, directing and editing a film, I would have lived it 5000 times. Naturally, one tends to loose objectivity.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Editing
Objectivity
Directing
Loose
Tends
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I've often been asked why my shot-taking is not stylish, why I don't think about visual statements. The truth is, style is irrelevant. I never think of the shot as much as I think of the characters and what they are saying and doing.
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Irrelevant
Statements
Stylish
Visual
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After I finish any film, I move to the next one. It takes about a year to write and another six months are for pre-production and other things. You need a minimum of two-and-a-half months for the shooting of a new film. Then, I also edit my own film.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Minimum
About A Year
Edit
Pre-Production
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The only time you do not get nervous is when you are making your first film. At that time, just the joy of making a movie is so high that you do not care; you are happy to have finally made it. It is only later that you want your film to be seen and appreciated by people.
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Appreciated
Only Time
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I lived in Bandra East, on the 12th floor. There was a small earthquake; I could feel the building shaking. I was halfway down the stairs when I realised I'd forgotten my laptop, and all my scripts were on it. If I lost the laptop, I'd lose all my work. I ran back up to get it!
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Forgotten
Halfway
Ran
Realised
Scripts
Shaking
Stairs
All My Work
Back Up
Earthquake
Floor
Laptop
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