Audience Quote by Satyajit Ray

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

— Satyajit Ray

Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

— Satyajit Ray

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

Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations…

— Satyajit Ray

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

There's always some room for improvisation.

— Satyajit Ray

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

— Satyajit Ray

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

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

“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

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

— Satyajit Ray

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