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Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

I think of myself as a film composer.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

Film music has a great history of composers and performers.

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.