“If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.” — Farhan Akhtar Quote

“If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.”

“With 'Dil Chahta Hai' being the first film and 'Lakshya' being the second, what people can expect from Excel Entertainment as a company, and from me as a director, is just good, clean entertainment. And hopefully, some residue of an idea or thought that you can take home and mull over.”

“There is a certain highlighting of issues, be it emotional, be it social, or simply an entertainment one: they can be written or directed by a woman differently, with a different voice. I feel that their voice needs to be given more stage and more space.”

“You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.”

“I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.”

“I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.”