Satyajit Ray Quotes
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.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
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Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.
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The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
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I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.
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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.
