Anurag Kashyap Quotes

There are a lot of really good Punjabi films with great content pertaining to family drama, romance, and history.

I would see Shah Rukh in most romantic films. I would see him in 'Notting Hill' and 'Pretty Woman.' He is the king of romance.

I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.

I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

Indian cinema gives you everything that western cinema doesn't. It's maseladar and spicy. If you like Indian food, I think you'll love Indian movies.

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.

I like watching a 'Ram Leela.' I like my dance and song.

Horror films in India always have a strong love story.

I love song and dance films in Bollywood.

We all have grown up watching Hindi romantic films, and when it comes to show love, that's probably how we show it.

I watch certain kinds of masala films.

One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.