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Bicycle Thief Is A Triumphant Discovery Of The Fundamentals Of Cinema, And De Sica Has Openly Acknowledged His Debt To Chaplin.

You Cannot Go Beyond A Certain Limit In Your Expenditure If You Want To Bring Back Money From Your Local Market, Which Is Very Small After Pakistan.

There's Always Some Room For Improvisation.

When I'm Shooting On Location, You Get Ideas On The Spot - New Angles. You Make Not Major Changes But Important Modifications, That You Can't Do On A Set. I Do That Because You Have To Be Economical.

Most Of The Top Actors And Actresses May Be Working In Ten Or Twelve Films At The Same Time, So They Will Give One Director Two Hours And Maybe Shoot In Bombay In The Morning And Madras In The Evening. It Happens.