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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.

Satyajit Ray

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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Change Music Yourself
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
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Music Myself
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
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
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
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Director Information Movie
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
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People Philosphy Solution Worth
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 Myself Success

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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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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