Satyajit Quotes

#1. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#2. The truth is that banks are the last feudal kingdoms, their rulers omnipotent, divine warlords. Their key lieutenants are 'ronin' (wandering mercenary samurai) who roam financial markets ready to ally themselves to any warlord for a share of plunder. This is not the place to apply the latest management theory. #Quote by Satyajit Das

#3. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#4. Bertolt Brecht's observation in The Threepenny Opera that eating takes precedence over morality. Emerging #Quote by Satyajit Das

#5. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#6. Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#7. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#8. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#9. There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#10. The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#11. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#12. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#13. I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#14. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#15. The director is the only person who knows what the film is about. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#16. I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#17. [W]hile devices cannot replace imagination, they can certainly influence it and even mould it. Devices are there for the artists to use if they so wish. With them they can say new things in a new way, or even old things in a new way. Or, if they choose, they can ignore the devices and say new things in an old way, or old things in an old way. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#18. Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average. #Quote by Satyajit Das

#19. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#20. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#21. Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#22. the sordid necessity of living for others."9 #Quote by Satyajit Das

#23. If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#24. I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray. #Quote by Nimrat Kaur

#25. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#26. 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. #Quote by Satyajit Ray

#27. There's always some room for improvisation. #Quote by Satyajit Ray