I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There's always some room for improvisation.