Satyajit Ray Quotes

27 quotes in 474 categories

• 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…
• Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
• The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
• Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and…
• I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
• I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
• There's always some room for improvisation.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
• The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
• The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Browse Satyajit Ray Quotes by Category