It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.
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I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.
It was really hard to find another project after my first film.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.
I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.
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