Anurag Kashyap quotes
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“I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.”
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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.”
-- Anurag KashyapSource : "Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.
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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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“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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“I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.”
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“I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.”
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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'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.”
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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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“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.”
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“Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.”
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“The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.”
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“'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.”
-- Anurag KashyapSource : The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 2012.
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“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.”
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“There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.”
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“Kalki is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am madly in love with her.”
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“I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.”
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“I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.”
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“I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.”
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“'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.”
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“Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.”
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“Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.”
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“Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.”
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“Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.”
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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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“I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.”
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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 didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.”
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“I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.”
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“The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.”
-- Anurag KashyapSource : The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. 2012.
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“Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.”
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“The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.”
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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.”
-- Anurag KashyapSource : "A Minute With: Anurag Kashyap". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, in.reuters.com. May 20, 2012.
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“All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.”
-- Anurag KashyapSource : "Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.
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