Anurag Kashyap famous quotes

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Film #Bright Future #Advantage

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.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Country #Space #America

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Thinking #Messages #Treatment

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.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Years #Healthy #India

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Thinking #Perspective #Towns

I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Wall #Cutting #Rooms

I want my films to be seen everywhere.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Want #Film

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Numbers #Lists #Fans

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Emotional #Film #Possessive

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Years #Cinema #World

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.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Impact #Mind #Pages

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Want #Pressure #Kind

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Boards #Film #Force

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Dark #Knights #Good Movie

When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Struggle #Fall #Commitment

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Resentment #Mainstream

Kalki is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am madly in love with her.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Madly In Love

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Writing #Thinking #Years

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Stars #Reality #Next

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Scripts

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Firsts #Bombay #Velvet

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#India #Cinema #Language

Cinema is an art form.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Art #Cinema #Form

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Hero #Cinema #Heroes And Villains

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Falling In Love #Fall #People

Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#People #Definitions #Entertainment

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Mind #Important #Film

Films are like oxygen for me.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Oxygen #Film

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Actors #Theater #Stage

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.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#College #Thinking #Long

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Boys #Boards #Posters

I am not born to make dreamy movies.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Born #Dreamy

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Talkers #Politically Correct #Diplomatic

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Quirky #Film

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#People #Bollywood #West

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Woody #Mets #Wanted

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Independent #Voice #Quality

There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really bold themes.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Thinking #Bollywood #Cinema

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
-- Anurag Kashyap

#Pseudo #Hollywood #Looking Good