Anand Gandhi Quotes
born 1980 India
Anand Gandhi (born 26 September 1980) is a screenwriter, film director, public speaker and media producer from India.
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The promise of survival beyond individual death or dispersion appeals to the most primal driving force of existence.
One singular aspiration in all my work is to attain the state of awe.
In a deeply interconnected world, there is no 'other'.
We now remain, at least on paper, one of the last few countries in the world, where if you don’t die successfully, you’ll go to jail for attempting.
You may be compassionate and charitable, but end up working for an institution that writes off the death of thousands as collateral damage. So be empathetic, but even more importantly, work towards building empathetic systems.
We are using the energies of the past to create something new and I’m very confident that what I’ve done has never been done before. I feel no pressure about it, I’m just taking the next step.
Seekers of meaning may not find meaning, but they do find each other. (From 'Eulogy for a Friend')
Simulation systems (mathematical models, philosophical thought experiments) that don’t have real world applications are like SPACs - shells with all the paperwork in place till something operational is ready to merge into them.
The ability and the desire to transmit knowhow, intention, and insight to others around us have co-evolved with humanity itself. Mixed reality is a huge milestone in that human project of record keeping, perspective sharing, empathising, and merging with the ‘other’, a project that began with the first cave painting, or even earlier.
What if we were as concerned with what we put into our minds as we are becoming with what we put into our bodies? What if there was inalienable evidence that culture is as important as food - would we scorn at junk culture?
As a child, I wanted to become a scientist, a magician, a poet, an architect, an illustrator, a sculptor, an actor, a philosopher, a photographer, a playwright and an animator. So by the time I was 13 or 14, I was convinced that it would be possible to a be of all of these if I made films.