expressions i would tell him im younger than you id go on talking about this and that but youd know better you can tell me to stop talking but hed say no youre a director thats the respect he gives to a director on the sets he has made all of us learn to be prepared he will be on time having learned his lines so we need to be very prepareddid any part of his conduct or process as an actor surprise youi found a different man in bachchan sir when i would meet him in his vanity van in the morning he has taught me so much about filmmaking and the use of cameras and lenses he is so calm and quiet he will teach you poetry in the vanity van he might suggest doing things in a certain way but on the sets he is a directors actor it amazes me that hes like that at this age with that kind of experience and his respect for writers is tremendous he would tell me the writer is trying to say something with this line i must convey it correctly where do you find actors like this today people want to write their own dialogueare the writers of the hindi film industry not being paid and respected enough is that why the industry is struggling so muchyes because we have been proposal makers even if you see in the early 70s we would put item numbers to please the distributors today we look at films from the marketing point of view what sells what will work which song will become a hit etc i find it a little odd when music directors tell me that so and so director asked them to give him a hit song i said but the song is according to a situation isnt it the music directors said no the directors tell us that they will make a situation for the song you just give us a hit song sometimes you have to do it because the actor said sohave you ever faced such a situation in your filmsno it has never happened to me i have been very fortunate it didnt happen maybe because i prepare a lot i take two years to write a script and see to it that every character is justified an actor shouldnt be a able to raise a question in the script and i narrate the script to actors with the songs so that they know where they are in the film i had 40odd actors in both hum aapke hain koun and hum saath saath hain and they were with me for almost 100 dayshow did you manage to control these mammoth productionsi narrate the script to them for three hours and tell them everything in detail so that they know where they are in the film if someone still has apprehension then i tell them not to do it its better to be