Zitat des Tages von Anurag Kashyap:
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
Cinema is an art form.
Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.
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.
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.
It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.
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.
Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
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.
When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.
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!
We need to stop objectifying our women in what we call our second religion... Our films. And our TV shows.
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.
Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
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.'
I want my films to be seen everywhere.
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.
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.
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
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.
Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.
I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.
In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.
I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.
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.
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.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
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.
I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.