Satyajit Ray quotes
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“Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.”
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“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”
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“Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”
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“When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.106, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.”
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“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.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”
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“There's always some room for improvisation.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'”
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“If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.”
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“Sometimes a director is making three films. Perhaps he is shooting a film in Madras and a film in Bombay and he can't leave Madras as some shooting has to be done, so he directs by telephone. The shooting takes place. On schedule.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“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.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“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.”
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“Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”
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“My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“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.”
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“I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.”
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“I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”
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“Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray (2004). “Complete Adventures of Feluda”, p.575, Penguin Books India
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“I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.”
-- Satyajit RaySource : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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