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.

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

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

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

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

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

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.

There's always some room for improvisation.

Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.

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.

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

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

So much time spent believingwe had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to hauntingourselves.

Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

Wear clothes that make you feel happy.