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My Cameraman And I Devised A Method, Which We Started Using From My Second Film, Which Applies Mainly To Day Scenes Shot In The Studio, Where We Used Bounced Light Instead Of Direct Light. We Agreed With This Thing Of Four Or Five Shadows Following The Actors Is Dreadful.

Sometimes A Director Is Making Three Films. Perhaps He Is Shooting A Film In Madras And A Film In Bombay And He Can't Leave Madras As Some Shooting Has To Be Done, So He Directs By Telephone. The Shooting Takes Place. On Schedule.

I Mix Indian Instruments With Western Instruments All The Time.

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.

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.