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

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

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

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

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

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