Anurag Kashyap Quotes
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When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!
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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.
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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.
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I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.
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There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really bold themes.
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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.
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In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.
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I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.
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Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
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Films are like oxygen for me.
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I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.
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I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.
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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.
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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.
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People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'
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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.
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In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
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Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.
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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.
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I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.
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There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.
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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.
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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.
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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.