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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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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."
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"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."
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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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"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 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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"What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."
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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."
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"Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music."
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"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
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"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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