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.

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

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

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

There's always some room for improvisation.

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