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.

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

We are the creation of love for the love.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.

The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away...

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life... It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.