Anurag Kashyap Quotes

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

Cinema is an art form. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

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

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

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. ~ Anurag Kashyap

First, stop making formula films that people have already started rejecting.

This year, several big budget films haven't been entertained by the audience.Still stars continue to dictate terms.

The youth wants new good content.

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Saturday,Dec.20,2014 ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

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

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

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

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

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

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! ~ Anurag Kashyap

I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom. ~ Anurag Kashyap

Films are like oxygen for me. ~ Anurag Kashyap

My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

I think the Internet has changed the world. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

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

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

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

The lower the cost of the film, the more you can experiment. ~ Anurag Kashyap

It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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. ~ Anurag Kashyap

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

I love the digital camera because it makes shooting easier and economical. I shoot fast, and I can shoot a lot. I shoot rehearsal; I just keep on shooting nonstop. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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. ~ Anurag Kashyap

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

I was 16 when I got admission in Hans Raj College. I completed school when I was 16, so everyone in my class - Zoology Honours batch 92 - was 18, and I was often treated like a kid. ~ Anurag Kashyap

I write, therefore I am. ~ Veena Kashyap

Nothing in the world has a greater power to enslave than fiction. ~ Aarush Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

Assamese life has more meaning than the violence, than its relationship with Delhi. Assam may not be sovereign politically, or economically, but the Assamese imagination has to remain sovereign. ~ Aruni Kashyap

Rumours arrive at a wedding like unwanted guests ~ Aruni Kashyap

Not very tall, not very dark but very...very handsome,' was his way of describing himself. ~ Anurag Shourie

Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft. ~ Anurag Wadehra

Never be so afraid of making mistakes that you stop taking actions.
~ Kaizen Quote ~ Kirtida Gautam

Love is the law of life, and foolish is he who tries to win over someone any other way. ~ Anurag Shrivastava

God is like a lover. Sometimes he gives you so much pain that staying alive seems like a punishment but in the next moment he shows you so much love, affection and care that you forget all your pains. Yes, the wounds can't be healed completely but god compensates it with other happiness. ~ Mayank Kashyap

If you couldn't find the answer in your past then, perhaps, you could sort it out in the future. ~ Anurag Bhatt

Every war has its martyrs - the unsung heroes who sometimes don't even know the rationale behind the war they are fighting. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to and die because they are destined to. ~ Anurag Shourie

I am not the Hero of this story Bob is

~ Aarush Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

There was no possibility of redemption in his tale. There wasn't an iota of hope in it. But the truth is, life goes on and stories have to end, and yet not end - which is also one of the features of any great story. ~ Aruni Kashyap

Death is the only certainty in life. The moment we are born, our journey towards our final destination begins. It's the beauty or the ugliness of that journey that defines our life; the distances covered varying in each case. Every flower that has bloomed in the free breeze of spring has to wither in the cruel icy autumn draught. ~ Anurag Shourie

I don't believe in these customs and rituals, as it's like manufacturing culture-fits on the graveyard of diversity. But then I haven't yet found any other alternative to this prevalent system, which doesn't have its fair share of drawbacks. So if following a custom means being courteous to someone, why not? ~ Anurag Shrivastava

Working with perfect person doesn't induce perfectionism in you. But it teaches you to give respect to your job ~ Rahul Kashyap

Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lies hidden may just be the stark, naked face of reality. ~ Anurag Anand

Magic doesn't mean to earn something or to get something. Magic is the will power. You can grow crops, but you can't create them. Difference is, one is the will power and the other is temptation. Magic selects the eligible but can't give them the proper direction. ~ Anurag Bhatt

Are red haired girls, red all over? ~ Anurag Mathur

The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn. ~ Anurag Shourie

A radical love story is the only device that makes the time-chariot of a village, a city, a country, gallop faster. Such a love story pulls the wheels of that chariot from a murky, regressive past towards a spotlessly clean road under autumn-blue skies. And for that chariot to move forward, to bring change in the village, you don't have to be conscious of being a radical. You just have to fall in love. ~ Aruni Kashyap

Quarrels can be sorted out but the bitterness remains,
No one gets anything and no one explains,
Hands can be shaken but the hearts cannot be congregated,
Those who were separated can't be aggregated. ~ Anurag Bhatt

And if people can see themselves for who they really are, they will know that every person has a dark side!~ Aarush Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

The mighty trojans fell, and so did i.
A wooden horse you were not, yet in a pool of my own blood i lie.
Dawn follows every dusk, and all that rises - fall it must.
So, my blood shall find its way and trickle down your eyes.
The day your deeds of today, eventually make you cry. ~ Anurag Anand

It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful, may be more.

~ Rudransh Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

I don't consider myself above the law, I consider myself above the principles.

~ Aarush Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

His entire life in India had become irrelevant and meant nothing. Not his own achievements, not his family's affluence, everything was beyond the curtain of mirrors with which America bounded itself. Nothing beyond mattered. Here he had to recreate himself, but the basic building block of his new persona was his colour. ~ Anurag Mathur

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. ~ Anurag Shourie

Every human is not born with the extraordinary capacity to accept himself unconditionally, the kind of acceptance that helps him to survive when the whole world stands in opposition.~ Aarush Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

We sate on the terrace. Again gazing at the moon. I don't understand women's obsession with the moon, lunatics in the most literal sense.

~ Aarush Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

My definition of Fun Game is when everyone wins. ~ Kirtida Gautam

Whatever I fed to his mind, thinking it was nutrition was, in fact, poison. No matter how much a person likes or craves sugar, he should not be raised on the diet of only sugar ~ Rudransh Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

A weapon is only an extension of one's own persona; as lethal or useless as the person wielding it. ~ Anurag Shourie

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend. ~ Anurag Shourie

Being busy is different from taking action. ~ Keshni Kashyap

My child, may you live happily forever. May you experience great success and happiness in life! But you will never be able to experience bliss. For, the one who sins cannot attain bliss, he might get everything in his life but not bliss ~ Gayatri Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

Time changes from sleep in moments to sleep of moments ~ Anurag Bhatt

Love is just like God. Some believe in it, some don't. You can only feel love and that too if you are open to its existence. Likewise, an atheist cannot feel the presence of the divine because his mind is shut to the possibility of there being one. ~ Anurag Shourie

In Sartre's hell, there are no torture devices, no devils. Just the INABILITY to become the person that you are. ~ Keshni Kashyap

When you can't handle the heady concoction of wine and women, it's time to pack up your bags and quit. ~ Anurag Shourie

A child is a best story teller if it is encouraged to do so. Parents shouldn't get confused between a lie and an excuse. They should let their children open for excuses and see how many fantasies come into existence. ~ Anurag Bhatt

Change the world, I know I won't,
Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
Is for my words on you to impress upon,
A smile, a tear or even an angry frown. ~ Anurag Anand

There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam

A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long. ~ Anurag Shourie

All of us humans are hypocrite, owing to the multiplicity of our psyche. ~ Anurag Shrivastava

Everybody hates lie but nobody wants to hear the truth. ~ Anurag Bhatt

A very important function of intelligence is the ability to premeditate. ~ Aarush Kashyap ~ Kirtida Gautam