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" My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. "
Karan Johar
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate. "
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Mom
" I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life. "
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Lot
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" I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all. "
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Love
OK
Storm
" I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life. "
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Talk
Life
I Am
" I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family. "
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Mother
" I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films. "
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Violence
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I Am
" 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. "
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Me
" I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini. "
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You
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Two
" I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic. "
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Am
I Am
Environment
" I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game. "
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You
Game
I Am
" For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me. "
Karan Johar
Policy
Quality
Child
" There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever. "
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Love
" I'm sad, upset, and disheartened with the trolling that happens on social media... At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting. And then they say, 'Why don't you speak about your sexuality? You could be iconic in this country.' But I don't want to be iconic anywhere. I want to live my life. "
Karan Johar
End
Social Media
Sad
" I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right. "
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You
Child
Going
" Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go. "
Karan Johar
Father
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Child
" Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own. "
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Life
Marriage
Me
" 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. "
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Me
Talking
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" 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. "
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You
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Lost
" I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me. "
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Me
Condemn
Affect
" 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? "
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Know
Politics
Alone
" 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. "
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Shy
Understand
Celebrate
" Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended. "
Karan Johar
Training
New
Moral
" No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will. "
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Day
" I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience. "
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Serious
Know
Good
" Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city. "
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Lights
Love
Me
" 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. "
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Me
Legal
You
" Two powerful people can't be friends. "
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" 'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie. "
Karan Johar
Cinema
Proud
Present