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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.”

“In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.”

“'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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!”

“Cinema is an art form.”

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