"We wanted to do a crime that the world would have to stand up and take notice."

“And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.”

“You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I'm arguing is simply that we should take responsibility for the effects of 'our place' around the world. To take responsibility for our embeddedness. If you don't want to, so be it. It does demand an imaginative engagement with our planetary interdependence and that can be quite challenging.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.”

“Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.”

Source : "3 Idiots still awaits 10-year test: Boman Irani" by Robin Bansal, www.hindustantimes.com. March 20, 2010.

“Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.”

“It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What did it mean? Soon we were all to learn what it meant.)”

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

“Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.”