Vetrimaaran Quotes

The violence in 'Visaranai' is based on reality.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.

When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins to harm the folk who look like the folk who want to be in charge. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood this, Malcolm X understood this, James Baldwin really understood this.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

In certain corrupt conditions of a State, conspicuous success is more dangerous than failure.

Habitually I go without a vest so that I can’t be accused of standing for the vested interests.

There are two things we don’t like to talk about: bad government and bad culture.

We are in a bad way. That herd of wild asses' colts [see Job 11:12], braying and kicking up their heels, is an unsatisfactory result of a hundred years of Democracy.

… the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government.

We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.

I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.

'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.