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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.

Satyajit Ray

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
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
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Instrument Music Myself Time
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
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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Hands Myself Original People Situation Story Writing
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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Change Music Yourself
Ever since Two Daughters I’ve been composing my own music.
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Creation Daughter Music Myself
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.
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Dangerous Flaw Hurry Mistake Movie Myself Rush
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
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
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
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Music Myself
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 Myself Story Treat 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
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
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
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
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
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People Philosphy Solution Worth

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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