Yash Chopra Quotes

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

Yash Chopra

• Great
• Love
• Food

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Yash Chopra

• Love
• Desire
• Human

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

Yash Chopra

• Today
• College
• Brother

Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.

Yash Chopra

• Live
• Think
• Start

I'm not making films just to be bold.

Yash Chopra

• Just
• Bold
• Making

I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

Yash Chopra

• Work
• Great
• Passion

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

Yash Chopra

• College
• Day
• Ambition

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

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• Romantic
• Relationships

I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

Yash Chopra

• Believe

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.

Yash Chopra

• Believe
• Done
• Home

My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't have to train anyone new. I give a lot of respect to all my technicians, because I'm a technician too. I wouldn't be able to convey a feeling if the writer didn't write it well, and the cameraman didn't shoot it well.

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• Important
• Feeling
• Respect