"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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"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 can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me."

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"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."

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"People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness."

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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'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."

Now

"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."

Film

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

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"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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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."

"A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering."

"I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me."

"I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for."

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

"I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe."

"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."

"People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness."

"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people."

"Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them."

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

"I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time."

"Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music."

"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."

"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."

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

"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."

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

"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."