Anurag Kashyap Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Cinema is an art form.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

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.

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.

Films are like oxygen for me.

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

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

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

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

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.

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

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

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

I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I want my films to be seen everywhere.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think the Internet has changed the world.