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Top 30 Satyajit Ray Quotes (2025 Update)

Satyajit Ray Quote: “The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.”

1. “The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.”

2. “The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.”

— Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray Quote: “There’s always some room for improvisation.”

3. “There’s always some room for improvisation.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.”

4. “Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.”

5. “If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”

6. “At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray Quote: “Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.”

8. “Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.”

— Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Satyajit Ray Quote: “I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.”

10. “I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Satyajit Ray Quote: “Last, but not least – in fact, this is most important – you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.”

13. “Last, but not least – in fact, this is most important – you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.”

— Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Satyajit Ray Quote: “Ever since Two Daughters I’ve been composing my own music.”

16. “Ever since Two Daughters I’ve been composing my own music.”

— Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray Quote: “I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.”

17. “I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Satyajit Ray Quote: “The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.”

19. “The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that’s half of our market gone.”

20. “There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that’s half of our market gone.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Satyajit Ray Quote: “When a new character appears in your tale, you must describe his looks and clothes in some detail. If you don’t, your reader may imagine certain things on his own, which will probably not fit whatever you say later on.’ So.”

22. “When a new character appears in your tale, you must describe his looks and clothes in some detail. If you don’t, your reader may imagine certain things on his own, which will probably not fit whatever you say later on.’ So.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

23. “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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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

25. “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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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

26. “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

Satyajit Ray Quote: “Dominus Omnium Magister. It means God is the master of all things.”

27. “Dominus Omnium Magister. It means God is the master of all things.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “If you take some words at random and put them together, it becomes gibberish, and everyone who knows the meaning of words knows it as such. But if you take unrelated moving images and string them together, there will always be some people who will hold that the resultant strip of celluloid aims at some profundity.”

28. “If you take some words at random and put them together, it becomes gibberish, and everyone who knows the meaning of words knows it as such. But if you take unrelated moving images and string them together, there will always be some people who will hold that the resultant strip of celluloid aims at some profundity.”

— Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray Quote: “Ray doesn’t go into lengthy descriptions. Yet, you can see – even feel – it all happening. That’s enough to bring out the goose pimples!’ Clearly, here the filmmaker in Ray gave him an edge over other writers. His words were brief, simple, lucid. But the impression that emerged was extraordinarily rich in detail.”

29. “Ray doesn’t go into lengthy descriptions. Yet, you can see – even feel – it all happening. That’s enough to bring out the goose pimples!’ Clearly, here the filmmaker in Ray gave him an edge over other writers. His words were brief, simple, lucid. But the impression that emerged was extraordinarily rich in detail.”

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Satyajit Ray Quote: “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.”

30. “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

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