A biography for Manoj Kumarhasn’t been written yet.
“I've faith in God.”
“I have inherited the spirit of patriotism and love for literature from my father and the right religious and moral values from my mother Krishna Kumari Goswami.”
“I was the first one to introduce cut-to-cut scripts, shoot in real hotels and bungalows instead of sets, and even sported dark glasses.”
“My father made me swear that I would never resort to violence in life.”
“I played the common man and his rise through politics in my film 'Yaadgar' years before Kejriwal came.”
“Every film-maker while writing a screenplay comes to a landmark point in the plot where he thinks a scene can be narrated musically.”
“I was born at my nana's house in Abbotabad, a hill station between Islamabad and Peshawar, on July 24, 1937.”
“In fact, I feel loving your country is better than loving a girl.”
“I was never a good student.”
“When I received the news of the song, 'Meri Desh Ki Dharti' being included in National Economic Survey, I had a strange feeling. Though I was happy, somewhere in my heart I felt my mission to highlight the plight of the Indian peasant through my cinema remains incomplete.”
“Gulshan Bawra is alive in every word of 'Mere Desh ki Dharti.'”
“Films have always been my passion and I enjoy watching different kinds of cinema.”
“God has given me honest eyes and pure ears.”
“I have no respect for anybody who is not original, irrespective of the fate of his/her product at the box-office.”
“We should create an award here in our country. Hollywood actors should crave to get that.”
“I was the oldest son, I had a younger sister named Lalita. When the Partition happened, my mother gave birth to a son, whom we named Kuku. He and my mom were unwell, we were in a refugee camp at the time.”
“I remember Kamini Kaushal had said goodbye to films when I was making 'Shaheed.' But I narrated the story to her and convinced her to do my film.”
“I will never impose myself on a script.”
“To make a film on Milkha Singh is a very big step.”
“It's not as if I had any copyright claims over the name Bharat. Anyone and everyone is Bharat.”