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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
Adaptation
Based
Been
Eighteen
Films
Find
Ideal
Long
Made
Novels
Now
Only
Original
Others
Screenplays
Seventeen
Short
Short Stories
Stories
Story
Two
Which
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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.
~ Satyajit Ray
After
Again
Decided
Film
Had
Home
Kind
Made
Musical
Only
Part
Same
Second
Some
Success
Want
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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.
~ Satyajit Ray
Actor
Actress
Bombay
Director
Evening
Films
Give
Happens
Hours
Madras
May
Maybe
Morning
Most
Same
Same Time
Shoot
Ten
Time
Top
Twelve
Two
Will
Working
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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
~ Satyajit Ray
Actor
Agreed
Cameraman
Day
Direct
Dreadful
Film
Five
Following
Four
Instead
Light
Mainly
Method
Scenes
Second
Shadows
Shot
Started
Studio
Thing
Used
Using
Where
Which
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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.
~ Satyajit Ray
Also
Audience
Bengali
Bombay
Cities
Class
Delhi
Educated
Films
Madras
Middle
Middle Class
Only
Play
Population
Small
Small Towns
Towns
Where
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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
Always
Cutting
Dangerous
Early
Editing
Films
Final
Find
Flawed
Most
Particularly
Rushed
Stage
Stages
You
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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.
~ Satyajit Ray
Bombay
Director
Done
Film
Films
He
Leave
Madras
Making
Perhaps
Place
Schedule
Shooting
Some
Sometimes
Takes
Telephone
Three
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The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
~ Satyajit Ray
Background
Changing
Conception
Days
Less
Music
Use
You
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The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
~ Satyajit Ray
About
Director
Film
Knows
Only
Person
Who
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The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
~ Satyajit Ray
Anything
Ever
Find
Only
People
Solutions
Themselves
Worth
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There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.
~ Satyajit Ray
Ban
Films
Gone
Half
Indian
Market
Our
Pakistan
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There's always some room for improvisation.
~ Satyajit Ray
Always
Improvisation
Room
Some
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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.
~ Satyajit Ray
Always
Bombay
Changed
Did
Film
Films
Gradually
How
Industry
Like
Local
Made
Now
Over
Realistic
Scenes
Well
Were
Years
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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
Attempted
Bear
Both
Bring
Course
Cultures
Detachment
Equal
Feet
Film
Films
His
Involvement
Measure
Seen
Someone
Synthesis
Who
Will
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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
About
Century
Familiar
I Write
Know
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Original
People
Situations
Stories
Story
Write
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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.
~ Satyajit Ray
Angles
Because
Changes
Economical
Get
Ideas
Important
Location
Major
Make
New
Set
Shooting
Spot
You
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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.
~ Satyajit Ray
After
Back
Beyond
Bring
Cannot
Certain
Expenditure
Go
Limit
Local
Market
Money
Pakistan
Small
Very
Want
Which
You
Your
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An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.
~ Sonia Gandhi
Economy
Find
Growing
Improve
Lives
Millions
Must
Per
Percent
Poor
Resources
Year
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Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.
~ Sonia Gandhi
Any
Challenges
Deep
Face
High
Ocean
Sky
Together
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Hidden nature is secret God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
God
Hidden
Nature
Secret
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