Top 50 Farhan Akhtar Quotes

I think nothing can be taken for granted – be it the fact that you get to work with a certain kind of talent, certain kinds of budgets, or that the audience looks forward to your work.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

‘Lakshya’ is a different genre of movie. While ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ could be categorised as a romantic comedy, this is a war drama.

I love travelling, especially to Goa.

Being healthy is not just about building a body: it is a lifestyle that manifests itself in your general outlook. It makes you more positive and optimistic and increases your energy level.

I think if I had a choice, I’d like to be in a film with De Niro.

I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.

For ‘Rock On,’ we not only acted as rock musicians; we also went into the studio to record songs and jammed live to get the concert feel right.

Difficulty does not deter me. In fact, I find challenges exciting.

It’s only when a project or film doesn’t work, that you think about what you could have done differently – whether you chose unwisely, or was there something in your application in that role, as an actor, as a director or as a producer, that you could have done better.

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there’s a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There’s so much that goes on, and we miss it when it’s over.

You have to be grateful for what you have, but you’re always pushing further.

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

‘Dil Chahta Hai’ was too raw. We only thought about the film. We never thought where the film was going to go. We wanted to make a film on our own terms.

If someone has behaved badly with a woman. and she hasn’t spoken about it for ten, 20, or 30 years, it’s her prerogative when she wants to speak.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds – Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.

When I made my debut as an actor in ‘Rock On!’ I was confident to get in front of the camera.

A break-up between couples is traumatic for everyone.

Whether it is crimes against women, whether it’s discrimination against women, whether it’s just social bias against women – these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.

Everything I do is gauged under the shadow of ‘Dil Chahta Hai.’ Even ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ and ‘Rock On,’ which are very urban films. So I am always seen through that lens.

Filmmaking, whatever the window dressing or the scale of a film may be, is eventually about telling a story.

If you had a fabricated story coming out every two weeks or every month, it would affect you. You would be like, ‘What’s the problem with people?’ or ‘Why can’t they let me be?’ And that’s the thought that comes into anyone‘s mind.

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

If I don’t work out, I lose weight instead of gaining it.

As much as a man would like to believe that he understands women, there is simply that much that he can write from their point of view or really understand them.

It’s amazing how much the human mind and body can do and achieve.

As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.

I feel with ‘Don 2’ I got an opportunity to do a very good action with the kind of pace that I would like an action film to have.

After ‘Rock On!,’ when I started acting, and I sang in the film, people asked me, ‘What was the need to sing in your film?’ and things like that. I really don’t have an answer for it. In terms of what made me do it? It just felt like the right thing to do.

Music was something I had put aside to make movies. Somehow I earlier felt there was only so much creative energy allotted to your life and only that much time to pursue your creativity. But I was wrong.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.

One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

To me, ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ is definitely a landmark. It has taught me so much.

I basically like a bit more control. Even in my personal life, I need things to be done on time. If it’s not done, I get impatient.

I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively – that gives me a lot of happiness.

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It’s not responsible to go ahead and say a ‘yes‘ or ‘no’ on a whim.

When I take up a film, I always think of the effect it will have on my children when they see the film years later.

To me ‘Qurbani’ was a good action film – it was fast, had one plot, and moved along at a pace, and it didn’t really divert attention.

I think it is important to play a sport. Apart from the joy of it, it helps keep you fit.

I cannot imagine of making a film without Boman Irani.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

With ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ being the first film and ‘Lakshya’ being the second, what people can expect from Excel Entertainment as a company, and from me as a director, is just good, clean entertainment. And hopefully, some residue of an idea or thought that you can take home and mull over.

‘Haqeeqat’ was a good war drama.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

Every movie gets exactly what it deserves.