Satyajit Ray Quotes

Short stories:Feludar Goendagiri, The Mystery of the Pink Pearl, etc

Walk of life:Indian film director

Born:2 May 1921, Kolkata

Died:23 April 1992, Kolkata

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Feature Image:By Dinu Alam Newyork – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

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.
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Compare Development Habit Story Treat Writing
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
SATYAJIT RAY

Director Information Movie
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.
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Actor Busy Director Movie Time Work
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.
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Mindset Rest Salary Wait
I don’t start a film with the heroine but with the cinema subject. If there is a woman in the story, she has to be of a particular type. It’s not as if I start with Madhuri Dixit and then think what kind of film.
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Choice Movie Start Style Woman
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
SATYAJIT RAY

Change Music
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.
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Decision Home Kind Movie Music Success
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.
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Original People Situation Story Writing
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.
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Adapt Ideal Movie Original Story
There’s always some room for improvisation.
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Improvement Improvise Room

Famous Film director

Alfred Hitchcock

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