When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

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.

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

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.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting

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

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