When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.