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Satyajit Ray Quotes

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 Ray

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Date of Birth:
May 2, 1921
Date of Death:
April 23, 1992
Nationality:
Indian
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The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
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The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
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The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
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I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.
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There's always some room for improvisation.
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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 Ray


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