Anurag Kashyap Quotes

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

If you can get your movie made the way you want to get it made, no matter what the end result is going to be, if people are going to see it, that's awesome.

Let film-makers take a call about what films they want to do.

I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.