Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Anubhav Sinha - Page 2

I don't even know whether I am a savarna or not, I am a Kayasth, so I am not Brahmin or Kshatriya or Vaishya or Shudra.

In Mumbai, you get good international food but there are few restaurants that serve good Indian cuisine.

It is not easy to deliver a good film and take the expectation of the audience one level higher every time.

You choose the film, and then the film chooses everyone else; a film decides everything on its own.

I grew up in a family of strong independent women.

A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big TV becomes.

After 'Sea Hawks,' television became very strange for me, I could not relate to the stories that were being shown on TV.

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

In 2001 when 'Tum Bin' released we got 90 to 100 screens. India had around 1000 screens at that time.

I have always gone with the story which I liked at that point of time and when I retire my filmography will be interesting.

I grew up in Varanasi where there would be a communal riot every other week. Then I moved to Aligarh, where the Muslims made me feel completely at home. They never made me feel different, so when did this business of 'them' and 'us' start?

I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.

'Mulk' is a film that needed to be made. We can no longer sweep the isolation of the Indian Muslim under the carpet.

Even when I make pizza, I make it from the scratch and prepare the dough.

I didn't plan to make 'Mulk' or 'Article 15.' Nor did I anticipate that 'Mulk' would be seen as a new beginning in my career. It's just that these were stories that had to be told.

By the time we woke up on Sundays, my dad would have left home to get mutton. It was a kind of stew with thick gravy that my mother used to make in a pressure cooker. Even after the mutton was over, the cooker would still have some masala left. I used to polish it off with some rice.

Banaras is a mystical city. It is not easy to know that city well.

When I started my career in television, there was a certain type of stories that were told. Who would have thought that one day I would get a chance to make a film on a story that is based on nothing, just a slap - a habit or practice that has been normalized for so long that if the woman gets upset over it, society says she is 'over-reacting.'

'Thappad' is dedicated to my mother. I've assumed her first-name as my middle-name for this film and I'm billed 'Anubhav Susheela Sinha' in the credits of this film.

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

'Article 15' actually is not about the Dalits. It is about us privileged people. What is it that we have done, what is it that we have been doing and what is it that we should be doing?

I am a shy man. I can't call a stranger and talk.

At 17, I went to an engineering college, the entire reading was about fluid mechanics and steam engines and what not, so I drifted from arts, literature and even cinema, because in Aligarh there were a limited number of theatres.

What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.

'Article 15' is an investigative drama where the audience too is an accused party.

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

I get scared of such love where people come out of the theatre and say, 'This is the best work of Anubav Sinha till date.' I feel the pressure and wonder what will I do next.

Around 2013-14, I started ranting on Twitter about the communal dysfunction that society was getting into. And I would have fights with trolls.

I have a list of things I want to say through my films and I have started doing that.

Cinema halls aren't just about movie watching. It's like watching a live match in a stadium with the crowd where you collectively share moments of joy and sorrow.

People call me left of centre, they don't even know why left is called left and why right is called right. They have no clue. These are just you know jargons - created and marketed.

I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal and Majaaz. They took me to another facet of literature and drama.

Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.

When you watch a film like 'Warning,' you would realize that it can't be made with stars.

I am happy to be called a 'commie' as long as I am one, so I should know if I am or not. I don't know what I am.

See, governments are overrated. They come and go in 5 or 10 years; it is we who have the power. But we are like Hanuman in 'Ramayan,' who needed to be reminded of his power.

I have to mention that Taapsee and Ayushmann are my favorite actors - or stars, whatever you call them. I love them. Our thought processes are in sync with one another.

I am now one of those people for whom the trolling never ends.

Cinema halls must be preserved by us and by the government. That business is in trouble today with monumental maintenance costs of idle machines and empty seats. When the crisis of the pandemic gets over and it is safe for all of us to go back to that experience we must, in hordes.