Anurag Kashyap

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.

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

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