Kabir Khan Quotes

Kabir Khan

Profession : Director

Birth : September 14, 1968

You don't need to agree with everything that everybody says but screaming, shouting and getting abusive is ridiculous.

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Things become easier and people show more confidence in you with bigger, larger projects. A good successful film always does that.

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The moment you talk about 26/11, everything is jingoistic. Even a TV debate sounds jingoistic and that's because emotions on the incident run really deep.

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What makes 'Phantom' different from other mission based films, is the amount of emotional drama there is in this film. And not just the main characters. Even the smaller characters have an emotional journey unto themselves and that forms major part of the narative.

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When you have actors like Salman, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Kareena Kapoor Khan, you life as a director is easier because they are such brilliant actors, there is a certain energy they bring onscreen.

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There is no ego whatsoever in Salman.

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I strongly feel that James Bond can't work in our country.

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Salman has an inherent larger than life quality to him. 'Ek Tha Tiger' compliments that with the kind of scale and spread that would fascinate audiences worldwide.

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You know, '83' is a big responsibility for me. I knew if I don't recreate this correctly, the country will not forgive me.

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I believe that you don't essentially need to know the sport to enjoy a sports film.

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One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need to but we can't nurture our writers overnight.

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We definitely need to give so much more importance, relevance, pay, glory to the writers because they are really the backbone of what we are creating.

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For me, if Vijayendra Prasad had not given me the two pager for 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' I would not have been able to create a screenplay.

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As a storyteller, I am always looking for magnificent human stories.

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I have always felt that sports films are not about sports. It's all about the triumph of the human spirit.

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For me, I am actually a content creator and doesn't matter where you are watching it.

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I think the audience is open heartedly accepting which is new, refreshing.

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Mani Ratnam was a favourite filmmaker because he did mainstream storytelling but always had a very real context or political backdrop.

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My attempt always is to make a film which you can enjoy without necessarily going into the politics of the film.

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You can look at 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' as a cute road journey with a lot of fun and laughter but if you get into the layers beneath you will find it more enjoyable. My daughter loves the 'Chicken Song;' it's the most political song of the film.

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