The best Quotes by Satyajit Ray

The best Quotes by Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.

There's always some room for improvisation.
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

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Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
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I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.
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When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.
There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.
Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.
Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
Writing changed the world. Suddenly ideas didn't have to disappear just because the person whose head they were trapped in had died.
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If dangerous ideas didn't excite the imagination, we would never wander astray.
Ideas don't need to go to war: Ideas can travel around the world without guns and bullets.
Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.
When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.
I love playing around with ideas and turning them into something useful or fun.
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
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Ideas control the world.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
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Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.
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You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.
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College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
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What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.
During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

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