Top Satyajit Ray Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Satyajit Ray Biography

Satyajit Ray (Bengali: [ˈʃɔt̪ːodʒit̪ ˈrai̯] ( listen); 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, music composer and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali Brahmo family of Bengali Kayastha origin which was prominent in the field of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London.

Read about Satyajit Ray in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Satyajit Ray Quotes

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.

Important, Tears, Needs, Fact, Tragic, Ending

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.

Light, Shadow, Actors, Four, Five, Mainly

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

Surfing, Use, These Days, Changing, Days, Conception

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

Discovery, Thieves, Cinema, Sica, Acknowledged, Openly

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.

Bombay, Film, Like, Local, Years

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.

Decided, Home, Musical, Same, Second Chance, Success

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.

Based, Long, Seventeen, Short, Stories, Two

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

Communication, Mind, Cinema, Forte, Communicate

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

Cutting, Editing, Finals, Stage, Dangerous

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.

Century, Hands, Know, People, Stories, Writing

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.

Films, Habit, Hobbies, Stories, Writing

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.

Films, Giving, Maybe, Morning, Same, Two

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

People, Solutions, Worth

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

Details, Illusion, Simple, Theme

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.

Fixed, Mind, Rest, Sake, Salary, Waiting

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.

Bengali, Cities, Class, Play, Small

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not. . . possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

Awards, Half, Indian, Judgement, Motivational, Possess

There's always some room for improvisation.

Improvisation, Room, Rooms

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.

Back, Limits, Local, Market, Pakistan, Want

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.

Directors, Three, Done, Leave, Film