Farhan Akhtar Quotes

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Farhan Akhtar

Profession : Director

Birth : January 9, 1974

I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively - that gives me a lot of happiness.

Farhan Akhtar

When you go to a film set, of course you're going to do your job, and you're excited about being there, but you somehow feel fatigued that you are just doing this day in and day out.

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From being in a film and shooting to just being in a studio with my guitar and musicians was a welcome change.

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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.

Farhan Akhtar

Amitabh Bachchan was the coolest character in every movie.

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'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.

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Most Hindi movies tend to dramatise events. They are very dialogue heavy. Characters don't speak like people normally do in real life.

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The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

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When not working, my days are lazy.

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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.

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If I don't work out, I lose weight instead of gaining it.

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

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

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I feel with 'Don 2' I got an opportunity to do a very good action with the kind of pace that I would like an action film to have.

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The first time I re-discovered the joy of watching an action movie was when I saw 'Die Hard.' It was a completely simple plot - a guy goes to meet his wife, and the building gets taken over by terrorists - but I was completely blown away. Great characters, and it moved along really fast.

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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.

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To me, action has to come from the plot.

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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.

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I usually play volleyball three times a week.

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

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