The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
SATYAJIT RAYYou 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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There’s always some room for improvisation.
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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.
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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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The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
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Ever since Two Daughters I’ve been composing my own music.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
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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.
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I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
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The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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I think they quite like me when I work because I’m one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don’t bring their costs in back home, once they’re shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.
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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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