It occurred to me, both during the preparation and making of the film, and a lot of times afterwards, that there's a very significant difference between the look of Heat and Dust and the look of, say, Ghandi or Jewel in the Crown, because Ghandi and Jewel in the Crown are, to my mind, Pinewood films made on location. Their technique consists in going to an area, taking all the natural people out, all the inhabitants out of it, roping it off, filling it with their own extras. So it's like the film shot on the back lot at Pinewood. And it doesn't have at all the same atmosphere that Heat and Dust had. Where we very frequently filmed in the... well, quite frequently filmed in the bazaars and in the streets, in Hyderabad and elsewhere.

I used my technique again, of having the Arriflex behind my back and saying, 'Look, you stand there', you know, 'you hide round the corner there', because a white face is enough to cause a crowd, particularly if it's Julie Christie, let alone if it's Julie Christie. So I'd used that same technique, say, 'Look, I will come to this point here and you come to that point there, and when you see me putting the camera to my eye, you start your action'.

And we did some tracking shots through the bazaar there, with... all the people that you see are the people who are actually there. They're not extras. You get one or two people looking at the camera, but it's not impossible at all. It gives it a very natural feeling. And it's a hand-held tracking shot, it worked perfectly well. And then there's another shot in the bazaar, treated in a slightly different way, where the landlord and Julie are walking through the bazaar and we were in a rickshaw. We were hidden in a rickshaw, and tracking ahead of them, and simultaneously it was covered with a long lens from a window at the back. And that, again, that worked very well. But you can only do it once, then the crowd gather so you have to pretend that you're finished, even if you haven't finished, and go away and do something else, and then two hours later you can do it again. But you can't work all day. You have to plan it carefully, very meticulously, and you... basically you can only do it once, so you have to be very well prepared and, hopefully, you can get it done. But the separation into... by the style of the photography in the '20s and '80s sections, that worked very well. To my mind, when I see that film now, that worked extremely well, without having any crude separation method, like the use or not use of a certain filter.