Rajkumar Hirani

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.

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!

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

I try and get what I want using the strengths that the actors have.

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.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

I am not really worried about how others perceive me.

I prefer to be a director and a narrator rather than a writer.

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.

You never know the depth of an actor.

I'm absolutely open to scripts written by someone else.

I think I have taken more holidays with Boman than I have with my wife.