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

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.

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.

There's always some room for improvisation.

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

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

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.