Film Quotes by Kiran Rao

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

— Kiran Rao

The box office in an arthouse film is always going to be small. We have to face this and overcome this.

— Kiran Rao

I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.

— Kiran Rao

I watch certain kinds of masala films.

— Kiran Rao

We were quite a middle class family, but we had access to all the good things in life, be it books or access to…

— Kiran Rao

If I as a filmmaker take a very radical subject, which might not get an audience in the first week, multiplexes wouldn't agree to…

— Kiran Rao

Though I adored Delhi, Mumbai was in my veins and I felt connected to this city and had to come back.

— Kiran Rao

Basically, I have always wanted to have an art-house cinema. A cinema where we can show films that are not necessarily the current offerings…

— Kiran Rao

After my 12th, my parents moved to Bangalore while I moved to Mumbai to study Economics at Sophia College. Much unlike other girls who…

— Kiran Rao

Working as an AD and producer prepares you in the sense that you know what you have to do to make a film. But…

— Kiran Rao

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

— Kiran Rao

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my…

— Kiran Rao

It took me a good two-and-a-half to three years to write 'Dhobi Ghat' and more importantly be satisfied with it.

— Kiran Rao

I was this classic film school snob who thought mainstream cinema was synonymous with bad cinema.

— Kiran Rao

I don't even watch many huge films. I don't go to the cinema every weekend. I watch selective cinema and want to make my…

— Kiran Rao