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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.

Satyajit Ray

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.
SATYAJIT RAY

Hands Myself Original People Situation Story Writing
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
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 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 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’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
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
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Instrument Music Myself Time
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
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
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
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.
SATYAJIT RAY

Dangerous Flaw Hurry Mistake Movie Myself Rush
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
The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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Change Music Yourself
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
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People Philosphy Solution Worth
Ever since Two Daughters I’ve been composing my own music.
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Creation Daughter Music Myself
There’s always some room for improvisation.
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Improvement Improvise Room

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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