Top 60 Anubhav Sinha Quotes

Even when I make pizza, I make it from the scratch and prepare the dough.

In 2001 when ‘Tum Bin’ released we got 90 to 100 screens. India had around 1000 screens at that time.

‘Mulk’ is a film that needed to be made. We can no longer sweep the isolation of the Indian Muslim under the carpet.

Generally, drama films are made with stars – I broke the rule unknowingly.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director’s son or a star’s son.

‘Dus’ was different from ‘Tum Bin,’ and ‘Ra.One’ from ‘Dus,’ but the difference didn’t pop out as much as ‘Mulk.’ That was because it was an issue-based film and crossed the line as being a serious, hard-hitting movie.

I keep saying that I am made of two cities and all my friends. You learn different things from different people.

Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.

I grew up at Kabir Choura in Varanasi in the 1970s. It was an era when communal riots used to happen every now and then at different places.

In my profession, people are never scared to be nice. They are in fact apprehensive about being critical.

It may not be the best marketing thing to do but I don’t like talking about my film until I have finished it.

Around 2013-14, I started ranting on Twitter about the communal dysfunction that society was getting into. And I would have fights with trolls.

You choose the film, and then the film chooses everyone else; a film decides everything on its own.

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don’t want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don’t want the right questions being asked.

After the #MeToo movement, I told my team to hire as many women as possible. So there are always a lot of women in my team. I talk to them and they read the script and come up with their own suggestions.

I didn’t plan to make ‘Mulk’ or ‘Article 15.’ Nor did I anticipate that ‘Mulk’ would be seen as a new beginning in my career. It’s just that these were stories that had to be told.

I’ll keep venting my anger through my films.

I am now one of those people for whom the trolling never ends.

Cinema halls aren’t just about movie watching. It’s like watching a live match in a stadium with the crowd where you collectively share moments of joy and sorrow.

I feel ‘Tum Bin’ is a franchise where fresh actors are appreciated.

I come from a small town, so there we have this habit of talking to rickshawallahs while you are making a trip. So when I moved to Bombay, people found it strange that I do that.

When you make the biggest film in the history of Bollywood, ‘Ra.One,’ and get so much flak, it drains you… haunts you for years.

Western audiences are way more forgiving for the image of a star.

I think I was always this person. If you see my early work, my first TV show called ‘Shikast’ and a lot of ‘Sea Hawks.’ I think I was dealing with a misplaced definition of success.

I don’t even know whether I am a savarna or not, I am a Kayasth, so I am not Brahmin or Kshatriya or Vaishya or Shudra.

I have a beautiful sofa, which is my writing corner, on which I sit every day and look outside the window.

It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, ‘How can you have something over me?’ as opposed to the privileged person saying, ‘How can we have something over the rest?’ I find the latter more exciting.

The first thing that bothers me after any celebrity death happens is that my phone starts buzzing for a bite.

A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big TV becomes.

When you watch a film like ‘Warning,’ you would realize that it can’t be made with stars.

I grew up in a family of strong independent women.

I keep finding good stories so I don’t see a reason not to work.

In 1981, when I passed out of Class 12, you could either become a doctor or an engineer. If you did not take up Science in Class 12, you were not considered a good student. The Arts were a no-no.

When my second film ‘Dus’ released, I was still getting compliments for ‘Tum Bin’ because it was a hit on satellite channels.

In daily life, there are times when people are happy to talk about problems, but when the society is troubled by something, there is never a larger platform for discussion. Bollywood is religion in our country and that is the best place where you can place those questions on the table.

I have always gone with the story which I liked at that point of time and when I retire my filmography will be interesting.

In Delhi, I got a chance to assist someone on a documentary film. Then I moved to Mumbai. This was before the satellite TV. One had to assist a director for years before being able to direct a movie.

‘Thappad’ is dedicated to my mother. I’ve assumed her first-name as my middle-name for this film and I’m billed ‘Anubhav Susheela Sinha’ in the credits of this film.

I grew up in Varanasi where there would be a communal riot every other week. Then I moved to Aligarh, where the Muslims made me feel completely at home. They never made me feel different, so when did this business of ‘them’ and ‘us’ start?

I come from Varanasi. Abuses, profanities and threats don’t bother me. I am 6-foot-tall guy and I can take care of myself.

‘Article 15’ prohibits any kind of discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, or religion. My film is about the discrimination we practice on various levels.

There’s a big difference between chauvinism and chivalry.

After ‘Ra.One,’ ‘Cash,’ ‘Tum Bin 2’ did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.

‘Mulk’ is a story of a Muslim family whose one member turns out to be a terrorist. How that family gets cornered and persecuted after that in our society is what it is all about. I have tried to deal with some of the burning issues of our times.

What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

I have made my mistakes and learnt from those.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

Hindus and Muslims used to be like two neighbors, who had some issues but who also loved each other.

I am afraid of things which scare me. I am afraid of heights and too much love.

We live in a world where corporates are trying to prove that water is a commodity. The economics of this world is inclined towards creating a divide between rich and poor, and religion is the most convenient tool.

I aspired to make ‘Tum Bin II’ better than my first film, if not as good as ‘Tum Bin.’

I am a shy man. I can’t call a stranger and talk.

After becoming an engineer, I worked for a year in Faridabad. I was so bored. I used to live in a one-room apartment, and every night I would come back to a frog in my bathroom.

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

I am, what you call, an audacious man. I could walk into the room of Warren Buffet, and he may not give me the money. But I am positive that we would have a good meeting.

I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.

I have to mention that Taapsee and Ayushmann are my favorite actors – or stars, whatever you call them. I love them. Our thought processes are in sync with one another.

Cinema halls must be preserved by us and by the government. That business is in trouble today with monumental maintenance costs of idle machines and empty seats. When the crisis of the pandemic gets over and it is safe for all of us to go back to that experience we must, in hordes.

Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can’t happen, it won’t happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.