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

Satyajit Ray

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

People Philosphy Solution Worth
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.
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Angle Change Economics Ideas Important Location Yourself
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.
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Change Industry Local Location Movie Reality Time
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 Myself Start Style Woman
I think they quite like me when I work because I’m one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don’t bring their costs in back home, once they’re shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.
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Cost Home Management Myself Quite Thinking Work
For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy… delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.
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Happiness Hope Movie Myself Reward
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
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Director Information Movie
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 Myself Rest Salary Wait
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.
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Dedication Determination Director Effort Movie Phone Shooting Time
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.
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Audience Myself Play Population
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.
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Beyond Limitation Marketing Money Yourself
Ever since Two Daughters I’ve been composing my own music.
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Creation Daughter Music Myself
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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Change Music Yourself
What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
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Culture Equality Movie See
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
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Music Myself
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
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Age Music Poetry Writing Youth

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