I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don’t express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent. Karan Johar Read Quote
For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that’s all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema. Karan Johar Read Quote
I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me. Karan Johar Read Quote
I find myself asking questions that as a filmmaker I never thought I would ask. Like I get a call from a magazine for a feature and my first question is, ‘Cover or not?’ Interview invite from a leading channel? I have stopped asking the topic. I’m just like ‘Primetime or not?’ If I am invited and put in the second row, I can be distraught for days! Karan Johar Read Quote
I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse. Karan Johar Read Quote
I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious. Karan Johar Read Quote
I’m a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You’re introduced, and someone will say, ‘Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He’s judge!’ And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten. Karan Johar Read Quote
I’m not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I’m a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me. Karan Johar Read Quote
I simply can’t do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say. Karan Johar Read Quote
I find that I don’t lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I’m talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I’m not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don’t lie about myself because I don’t lie to myself. Karan Johar Read Quote
