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
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 quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films. – Anurag Kashyap
India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts. – 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
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 didn’t ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards. – Anurag Kashyap
‘The Dark Knight’ is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences. – 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
‘Bombay Velvet’ is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis. – 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
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
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
When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish. – 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
All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique – that’s not working any more. – 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
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the ‘bold’ films out of reach of the audience. – 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