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Satyajit Ray

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


— Satyajit Ray


#changing #conception #days #less #music

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


— Satyajit Ray


#ever #find #only #people #solutions

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.


— Satyajit Ray


#films #gone #half #indian #market

There's always some room for improvisation.


— Satyajit Ray


#improvisation #room #some

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.


— Satyajit Ray


#bombay #changed #did #film #films

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


#century #familiar #first-hand #i #i write

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 do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.


— Satyajit Ray


#because #changes #economical #get #i

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.


— Satyajit Ray


#back #beyond #bring #cannot #certain






About Satyajit Ray

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Did you know about Satyajit Ray?

In the sixties Ray visited Japan and took particular pleasure in meeting the filmmaker Akira Kurosawa for whom he had very high regard. It had the first kiss fully portrayed in Ray's films. Ray studied at Ballygunge Government High School Calcutta and completed his B.

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 1948 film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London. Ray's first film Pather Panchali (1955) won eleven international prizes including Best Human Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.

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