Words matter. These are the best Sajid Khan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My father was a filmmaker but he made B-grade films. However, he always aimed at making a big film.
The only pressure on me is that I should never disappoint my audience.
If anybody will ask about my ex, or exes, I will just smile. I’ll never say anything negative because I think that’s what being a gentleman is.
I can’t say I am a great director but I am the greatest audience.
I am usually frivolous and fun, but sometimes I can be dead serious in my comments.
My training ground has been my interest in watching movies. Unlike most other directors, I haven’t assisted anyone.
After the success of ‘Heyy Babyy,’ ‘Housefull’ and ‘Housefull 2’ I was overly confident that ‘Himmatwala’ would set new records. Its failure was disheartening.
I don’t work on television round the clock.
The biggest difficulty in film industry today is not that of getting dates, actors or finance, but writers. We don’t get writers. They are like heart surgeons with whom you need to meet after fixing an appointment.
Hindi movies will never be liked by the critics, trust me. The main stream Hollywood film will not be liked by the critics.
Sajid Nadiadwala has been the strongest guiding light in my life. He and Farah are the only two people who I give full freedom to slap me in public, and I will keep my head down because they are my elder brother and sister.
I hope I’ve made a good film. And before you ask, a good film is one that I’d see three years from now and not cringe.
By the age of 13-14, I realized that I could make people laugh. So I started dancing, doing mimicry, and even playing music.
There was only one Kishore Kumar and there will be only one Amit Kumar.
When I thought of the word ‘Himmatwala,’ I couldn’t think of anyone other that Ajay Devgn who could do justice to the role. He is a great actor and can portray emotions, anger and action effectively.
One host I love watching is Billy Crystal. His hosting was never scripted, it was organic.
I think I had become over-confident in my approach towards my work and with people around me. I admit that I’d started sounding pompous and self-obsessed.
I do not why the critics don’t like my work. I guess I do not make films that they like.
People think I am arrogant, I don’t think so. I cannot be arrogant at all… I am basically a lower middle class person by heart.
Films don’t change lives, nor are they made to change anything, their only purpose is to entertain.
No man at the beginning of a relationship tells the woman the truth. Initially, he just wants to have fun.
I realized I have to be politically correct and easy. I was taking myself too seriously, I had become rude.
‘Housefull’ is not a ‘leave your brains behind’ kind of a film. It has a very intelligent screenplay.
I had done 17 drafts of ‘Heyy Babyy’ before the final screenplay emerged. It’s actually based on the wild lifestyle of a friend. In fact, when he saw ‘Heyy Babyy’ he threatened to sue me and said I’d better pay him royalty.
I like to make films which a family can sit and watch together.
Critics never rate any blockbuster well.
I have always been a director at heart.
True critic is someone who loves movies and understands it.
There is always pressure. If you make a flop film then you are under pressure to make a hit film. If you make a hit film then you are under pressure to surpass your own standard or at least deliver another hit because the audience also has expectations.
But, I have greatest respect for women, and I never ever mock them or the institution of marriage or a committed relationship!
Cinema is my life and I can never make a flop.
Maybe one day I could make a film which works at the box-office and the critics also like it.
We went bankrupt. My parents got divorced. I was going to a super-rich kids school and suddenly we had to shift to Shivaji Nagar slums. So I have had the experience of both lives.
I’ve been an action buff all my life. For me, action is not complete without emotion, and at the same time it’s about heroism more than anything else.
You know that Sajid Khan is a brand name and that you will get a family entertainer from him. I will never change that.
I strongly believe that besides having good action, action-oriented films need to have a good baseline for the script.
Cinema is a medium which makes you forget your worries and present a world which you can never be a part of.
I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn’t make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.
I basically hate wearing make up.
There were lots of perceptions about me, right from being gay to casting couch to being a drunkard to getting violent, none of what I am in real life.
I would rather make a bad film which does well at the box office than a good film which does badly.
I feel that every person watching a reality show is an expert judge.
Being single I feel is a boon – why do you guys want me to push me into hell by getting me married?
I don’t make films to say, ‘See what a great director I am!’ I don’t go and please a particular actor. I feel it’s more important that your film works.
The idea of ‘Humshakals’ was already in my mind when I was making ‘Himmatwala.’
I like the challenge of making people do things which seem unthinkable.
The kind of entry that Amitabh Bachchan had in ‘Coolie,’ for me, it’s the entry of all time.
Among close friends and family members, I say whatever I want to. But, as a filmmaker, I have my responsibilities, and I have to look at so many things at the time of finalizing a script.
The truth is you may be far happier as a bachelor, but you are far more at peace as a father.
Comedy is basically action but you get the reaction on laughter.