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.

quote by Satyajit Ray
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

quote by Satyajit Ray
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Satyajit Ray
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Satyajit Ray
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!