Anubhav Sinha Quotes

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

There's nothing more political than fantasy.

For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.

There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land.

To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

There is no social question, there are social questions.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.