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

Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

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

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 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.