Top 35 Anurag Kashyap Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Cinema is an art form.”

— Anurag Kashyap

2. “Entertainment’s definition has been reduced to making people happy.”

— Anurag Kashyap

3. “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

4. “Films are like oxygen for me.”

— Anurag Kashyap

5. “Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.”

— Anurag Kashyap

6. “I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.”

— Anurag Kashyap

7. “I want my films to be seen everywhere.”

— Anurag Kashyap

8. “If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.”

— Anurag Kashyap

9. “I am not born to make dreamy movies.”

— Anurag Kashyap

10. “I think the Internet has changed the world.”

— Anurag Kashyap

11. “I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.”

— Anurag Kashyap

12. “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

13. “I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.”

— Anurag Kashyap

14. “I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.”

— Anurag Kashyap

15. “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

16. “I’m very emotional and possessive about all my films.”

— Anurag Kashyap

17. “I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.”

— Anurag Kashyap

18. “Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.”

— Anurag Kashyap

19. “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

20. “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

21. “I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.”

— Anurag Kashyap

22. “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

23. “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

24. “Politicians need a film appreciation course.”

— Anurag Kashyap

25. “The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.”

— Anurag Kashyap

26. “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

27. “Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.”

— Anurag Kashyap

28. “The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the ‘bold’ films out of reach of the audience.”

— Anurag Kashyap

29. “I didn’t ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.”

— Anurag Kashyap

30. “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

31. “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

32. “The West sometimes doesn’t understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.”

— Anurag Kashyap

33. “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

34. “Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.”

— Anurag Kashyap

35. “I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.”

— Anurag Kashyap

36. “There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.”

— Anurag Kashyap

37. “All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique – that’s not working any more.”

— Anurag Kashyap

38. “Kalki is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am madly in love with her.”

— Anurag Kashyap