Filmmaking Quotes

Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working with any good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one even knew the ABC of filmmaking.

It is my livelihood. But its responsibility lies with the film makers who, after 50 years of sound film, have not been able to give cinema an identity of its own.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

What a sad business, being funny.

I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.