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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.

Satyajit Ray

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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Mindset Myself Rest Salary Wait
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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Cost Home Management Myself Quite Thinking Work
Ever since Two Daughters I’ve been composing my own music.
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Creation Daughter Music Myself
There’s always some room for improvisation.
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Improvement Improvise Room
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
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Music Myself
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.
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Actor Busy Director Movie Time Work
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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Compare Development Habit Myself Story Treat Writing
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.
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Angle Change Economics Ideas Important Location Yourself
Well the Bombay film wasn’t always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.
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Change Industry Local Location Movie Reality Time
I don’t start a film with the heroine but with the cinema subject. If there is a woman in the story, she has to be of a particular type. It’s not as if I start with Madhuri Dixit and then think what kind of film.
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Choice Movie Myself Start Style Woman
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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Hands Myself Original People Situation Story Writing
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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Dedication Determination Director Effort Movie Phone Shooting Time
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
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Age Music Poetry Writing Youth
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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Adapt Ideal Movie Original Story
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
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Instrument Music Myself Time
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
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People Philosphy Solution Worth

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