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There's always some room for improvisation.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

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What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

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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.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Director

Born: May 2nd, 1921

Died: April 23rd, 1992

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