Anurag Kashyap Quotes
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.
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John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.
