If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing more after… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
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… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
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… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
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… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
“Ray doesn’t go into lengthy descriptions. Yet, you can see—even feel—it all happening. That’s enough to bring out the goose pimples!’ Clearly, here the… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
