Anurag Kashyap Quotes

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

The process of starting up a new film is one of looking through a lot of material and trying to find something you really like. And it does sometimes take a minute.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit.

When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

I believe in working with your morning brain - you have your coffee, and then maybe you'll start thinking about the grand plan and what's going to happen in the next arc, and then you write for a while, and then you get really dreamy, and over the course of the day or in the middle of the night, something comes, and you just throw it in!

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.