Top 66 Farhan Akhtar Quotes

I love ice cream and gulab jamuns.

To me, action has to come from the plot.

‘Haqeeqat’ was a good war drama.

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

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

I take a more holistic approach to fitness than trying to achieve a certain body to display.

I love travelling, especially to Goa.

It was interesting to write ad films and scripts for TV shows before I moved on to writing a feature film. That helped me grow as a writer, and I also found out how long I could sit in front of a computer and see something through.

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.

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

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

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

I wish I’d got my driving license at 18, not 22. I also wish I had graduated earlier, even though I didn’t finish college.

Indian food beats everything else, in my book. The kinds of cuisine our country offers is just amazing. Every single dish has a variation depending on what region you go to, and that excites me the most about Indian food.

There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress. I knew her stress stemmed from her love for me, yet I never paid attention to her feelings. When it finally hit me that my idleness was taking a toll on her, I was genuinely sad and depressed.

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

To hear someone talk about their life – you get to know the way their eyes moisten up, how big the smile is or how comfortable their body language is while talking to someone.

If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.

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

As the director, you are the organiser who has to have all the answers. You are the person with maximum clarity.

In any case, I am not a great one to make plans for the future.

Even when I was writing the script for ‘Don,’ I suspected it could lead to a sequel.

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

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 used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.

When I watched Guru Dutt’s films, they just blew my mind.

I’m a bit of an extremist.

Fitness is about keeping yourself healthy. This is something you do for yourself and for your loved ones.

For me, to consciously seek unpredictable roles would be dangerous.

It amazes me how much noise there is on a set while people are trying to focus and do their jobs. But there’s some kind of order within that chaos.

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.

I realised that I enjoyed direction while making ‘DCH.’ The process of putting a film together and working with the cast and crew felt good.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

I cannot imagine of making a film without Boman Irani.

Amitabh Bachchan was the coolest character in every movie.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Nobody is immune to feeling depressed.

People want a certain amount of respect when they watch a film: it should be worth of their time.

As an actor, you buy into someone else’s dream and make it your own, and you don’t lose sight of that.

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

The Ladakhis, as a people, are quite laidback.

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.

I think if you believe in an idea, then you should put it out there and be as original to the thought as possible without worrying about the risk.

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.

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

Everyone has a Milkha Singh in them.

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

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.

‘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.

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.

‘Dil Chahta Hai’ is not the first film about friendship. ‘Lakshya’ is not the first film about war and coming of age.

Work does affect my personal life, as it consumes most of my time. It takes away a lot from my family time.

I like to stay within the zone of one character. It would disturb me to break away and go into an entirely different territory.

Being a parent to my daughters, son to my parents, and friends to many people, I would wish for a society that’s fair to everyone, that’s free of prejudice and as non-divisive as possible.

I was very focused when I wanted to make ‘Dil Chahta Hai,’ though it was difficult for me to convince people that I know how to make films and I will be able to direct and put a film together.

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.

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

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.

Even within escapist cinema, if you find a good story to tell, it will do well.

I usually play volleyball three times a week.