List of Satyajit Ray Quotes

Ever Since Two Daughters I've Been Composing My Own Music.

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.

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.

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.

I Was Interested In Both Western And Indian Classical Music.

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.

The Conception Of Background Music Is Changing. You Use Less And Less Of It These Days.

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.

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.

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.

Bicycle Thief Is A Triumphant Discovery Of The Fundamentals Of Cinema, And De Sica Has Openly Acknowledged His Debt To Chaplin.

There Is A Ban On Indian Films In Pakistan, So That's Half Of Our Market Gone.