Shahrukh Khan: Film

“After all, what is a film? It is selling of a dream. We have to tell lies to people, we have to sell them dreams.”

“Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world.”

“My films do well only because they are good, not because of me.”

“The audience's preferences for films are in black and white. They either like a film or they don't.”

“I only hope that people enjoy viewing the film I’ve enjoyed making. I don’t know whether the film we’ve made is commercial or not, whether it’s good or not, but I do know that we’ve made it honestly and that we've enjoyed making it. I just hope it has turned out to be the film we had set out to make.”

“I don’t normally comment about my own films. But my judgment of films is excellent, it is better than yours.”

“My biggest enemy, incidentally, is my ‘next time.’ I’m neither being immodest when I say that my next will be even better nor am I being humble when I say that this is less than what my next film will be.”

“A person must buy my film only if he feels good about it, not otherwise.”

“I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.”

“If money-making was my aim, I could have done two ad films or shows and earned the same amount of money -- probably more -- in just two or four days.”

“I don’t feel ill about anyone. I don’t even feel nice about anyone. I just don’t think about them. I am selfish that way. I think about myself, my films and my friends.”

“Actually another thing that keeps me going in the industry is trying to do a film that impresses”

“I bring excitement on the sets. I’m an exciting actor, overrated, exaggerated. But I’m not an unexciting actor. I excite people. I never lose hope. If I feel that a film is going wrong somewhere, I do even better.”

“Films and filmmakers and actors are part of a strange art form, which is only measured by the yardstick of commerce. So it's a dichotomy; it'll always be so.”

“On some rare occasions I do go to cinema theatres abroad. But if you really ask me I would rather watch a film on DVD all alone in the dark environs of my car or my home.”