Kashyap Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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.' — Anurag Kashyap

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

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts. — Anurag Kashyap

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

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

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

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

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

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 Kashyap

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

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

We need to stop objectifying our women in what we call our second religion ... Our films. And our TV shows. — Anurag Kashyap

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

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

There is a difference between a good society and a society that fakes goodness. — Kirtida Gautam

Don't plant a seed just a day before you need the fruit. ~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

Being busy is different from taking action. — Keshni Kashyap

I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly. — Rohit Shetty

You cannot stop loving your child because you know that he has committed a wrong action. But you certainly stop loving yourself for loving him.

~ Rudransh Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

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

We are ready to think of humans as MACHINES but we are not ready to think of humans as ANIMALS. — 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

When my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he'd heard at the market about the groom's family, at my aunt Moina-pehi's wedding in January 2002, his eyes shone like inky marbles reflecting sunlight. — Aruni Kashyap

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream. — Anurag Kashyap

One can perceive me only with his limited vision. A droplet can't perceive the extent of the ocean.

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

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

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

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

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

I don't want to tax my mind to find perfect Iron Man line.

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film. — 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

What we enjoy we enjoy, dispute is useless. ~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains. — Anurag Kashyap

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make. — 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 simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Anurag Kashyap

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

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

They say you fall in love only once but every time I see her I fall in love with her all over again and again. — Mayank Kashyap

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But enough of the drama.
Winter has turned to spring.
And I am feeling good. — Keshni Kashyap

Now Anurag will be called Abhinav Kashyap's brother — Abhinav 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

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

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

The day when you find your true love, the day when you loose your virginity, the day when you buy a car or a house are often consider as the most important day of ones life but for me the most important day is when you find why you were born. — Mayank 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

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance. — 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 decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it? — Ranbir Kapoor

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

Self -pity is the worst form of poison. It kills a person without the person realizing it ~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

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. — Anurag Kashyap

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

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

Films are like oxygen for me. — Anurag Kashyap

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 Kashyap

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

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

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

Competence is the most effective tool to hide madness. Black holes actually appear to be the brightest stars in sky. ~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

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

Politicians take something out of context to create problems. — Anurag Kashyap

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

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

Cinema is an art form. — Anurag Kashyap

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

Do you know why I am unstoppable? It is because I decide my stopping line.

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

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

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

I am not the Hero of this story Bob is

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

Now I know I am done. Now I know She is done.

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

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

Think or don't think, but don't think that you are thinking when you are postulating. — Kirtida Gautam

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 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. — Anurag Kashyap