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

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.

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

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

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

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.