Anurag Kashyap Quotes

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

As far long-term aspirations, other than acting, I do want to direct a little bit. I want to get on the production side and eventually start a production company and maybe make some projects of my own.

As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale. And the opposite is true - if everyone wants to make your movie, that's a sign that it probably sucks.

I love all kinds of stories and movies, and I did work hard to get through to the creative community and studio executives that I could work in a number of different genres and tones.

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.