Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.
Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.