A biography for Rajkumar Hiranihasn’t been written yet.
“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!”
“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.”
“You never know the depth of an actor.”
“The pressure is always there to make good films, but that is more from your mindset, either you have it or you don't have it.”
“I have a terrible reputation for being nervous.”
“I'm a filmmaker first, nothing else matters.”
“I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.”
“I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.”
“I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.”
“Whenever I finish a film, I feel that this is the worst film that I have made. This is bound to happen because while writing, directing and editing a film, I would have lived it 5000 times. Naturally, one tends to loose objectivity.”
“After I finish any film, I move to the next one. It takes about a year to write and another six months are for pre-production and other things. You need a minimum of two-and-a-half months for the shooting of a new film. Then, I also edit my own film.”
“Most biopics are stories of people who achieve something. It's an easier graph, a rags-to-riches story, or wanting something and reaching that. Sanju's life is not actually a case like that.”
“Attenborough's 'Gandhi' shook me as a filmmaker.”
“100 years of Indian cinema has happened. Anything you do, feels like it has already been done. The struggle is to find a new and unique idea.”
“Nagpur was a very small town. There was no exposure to different kinds of films or world cinema. Only Manmohan Desai films.”
“If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.”
“I don't think anything comes naturally; you just have to work very hard.”
“I'm a film maker, not a crusader. I know a film will not change the world. If it can make a difference to a few that's good enough.”
“I would say films inspire me more than the makers.”
“As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.”