The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

There's always some room for improvisation.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

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

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.