Anubhav Sinha Quotes

When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.

My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.

After 'Honey' I read the rave reviews and thought I had it made. But it was two-and-a-half years before I was on the screen again.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

I'm very hard on myself as an artist to begin with, so I personally don't even think I have the proper chops to sell a record, but people think differently.

I acted in 'Aap Kaa Surroor,' which did well. But after that, films didn't work for me.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where they thought they were going to be movie stars, put the entire weight of a film on their back, and it failed. And some of them didn't recover from that.

Nobody is going to keep giving me chances even after two-three of my films don't do well.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

Art scares me. I don't feel cool enough to be an artist.

The flop that hit me was 'Tevar.' It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me. When you do a home production, it always hurts more. I wasn't ready to accept that 'Tevar' didn't do well.

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face.

Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard.

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.