Farhan Akhtar
Being healthy is not just about building a body: it is a lifestyle that manifests itself in your general outlook. It makes you more positive and optimistic and increases your energy level.Collection: Positive
I take a more holistic approach to fitness than trying to achieve a certain body to display.Collection: Fitness
Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.Collection: Trust
One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.Collection: Patience
'Dil Chahta Hai' is not the first film about friendship. 'Lakshya' is not the first film about war and coming of age.Collection: Friendship
To hear someone talk about their life - you get to know the way their eyes moisten up, how big the smile is or how comfortable their body language is while talking to someone.Collection: Smile
It's amazing how much the human mind and body can do and achieve.Collection: Amazing
Fitness is about keeping yourself healthy. This is something you do for yourself and for your loved ones.Collection: Fitness
I love ice cream and gulab jamuns.
I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.
If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.
I love travelling, especially to Goa.
'Deewar' has been remade so many times, 'Trishul' has been remade so many times. But 'Don' - no one has gone into this area as often as they have gone into these other movies, and I think it fits into the modern sensibility of movie viewing quite well.
A break-up between couples is traumatic for everyone.
'Lakshya' is a different genre of movie. While 'Dil Chahta Hai' could be categorised as a romantic comedy, this is a war drama.
There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress. I knew her stress stemmed from her love for me, yet I never paid attention to her feelings. When it finally hit me that my idleness was taking a toll on her, I was genuinely sad and depressed.
Nobody is immune to feeling depressed.
Work does affect my personal life, as it consumes most of my time. It takes away a lot from my family time.
As the director, you are the organiser who has to have all the answers. You are the person with maximum clarity.
I think nothing can be taken for granted - be it the fact that you get to work with a certain kind of talent, certain kinds of budgets, or that the audience looks forward to your work.
Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.
If you had a fabricated story coming out every two weeks or every month, it would affect you. You would be like, 'What's the problem with people?' or 'Why can't they let me be?' And that's the thought that comes into anyone's mind.
It does not feel any different being directed by a first-timer as long as I am convinced that the director is passionate about the film he or she is making. If you get a sense of their vision for the film and their aesthetics of your performance, then it does not matter whether you work with a new or an experienced director.
Filmmaking, whatever the window dressing or the scale of a film may be, is eventually about telling a story.
Being a parent to my daughters, son to my parents, and friends to many people, I would wish for a society that's fair to everyone, that's free of prejudice and as non-divisive as possible.
My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.
I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.
In any case, I am not a great one to make plans for the future.
When I take up a film, I always think of the effect it will have on my children when they see the film years later.
Everyone has a Milkha Singh in them.
Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.
Even within escapist cinema, if you find a good story to tell, it will do well.
People want a certain amount of respect when they watch a film: it should be worth of their time.
Everything I do is gauged under the shadow of 'Dil Chahta Hai.' Even 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' and 'Rock On,' which are very urban films. So I am always seen through that lens.
As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.
I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.
When I made my debut as an actor in 'Rock On!' I was confident to get in front of the camera.
I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.
You have to be grateful for what you have, but you're always pushing further.
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.
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.
From being in a film and shooting to just being in a studio with my guitar and musicians was a welcome change.
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.
Amitabh Bachchan was the coolest character in every movie.
'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.
Most Hindi movies tend to dramatise events. They are very dialogue heavy. Characters don't speak like people normally do in real life.
The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.
When not working, my days are lazy.