I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room. Karan Johar Read Quote
I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, ‘I don’t know where you came from’. I didn’t have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means. Karan Johar Read Quote
As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it’s just a while magical… it almost feels like you’re at a big party in India, where you’re singing, you’re dancing, you’re laughing, you’re crying, you feel like you’re at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions. Karan Johar Read Quote
I don’t know about happy endings, because I don’t think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately. Karan Johar Read Quote
Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It’s unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That’s why I don’t read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone. Karan Johar Read Quote
From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it’s all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them. Karan Johar Read Quote
I’m deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I’m not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I’m scared to use certain words: like, if I use ‘Bombay,’ will there be a problem? Karan Johar Read Quote
I’m exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It’s like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them. Karan Johar Read Quote
I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, ‘I love your movies!’ And, of course, he asked, ‘Which one?’ A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn’t remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. ‘The recent one!’ And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me. Karan Johar Read Quote
