Words matter. These are the best Anurag Kashyap Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
Politicians need a film appreciation course.
It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.
The lower the cost of the film, the more you can experiment.
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema – the international film festivals.
‘Aiyyaa’ is a very quirky film.
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.
I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my class – Zoology Honours batch 92 – was 18, and I was often treated like a kid.
One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
I’m very emotional and possessive about all my films.
I don’t know if I’d ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I’ve passed that stage long ago.
Cinema is an art form.
Fans are your greatest enemies because they tend to bracket you. And the moment someone expects I should do something, I break out. I often tell fans who say, ‘Make a ‘Gulal 2’ or ‘Gangs 3,’ that I am living my dream, not theirs.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country’s not so clean. They’re either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland – clean places. Everywhere except India.
I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.
I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.
In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.
I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.
I am not born to make dreamy movies.
For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.
It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.
When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.
Films are like oxygen for me.
There shouldn’t be any censorship on making a film.
I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.
