Ray, Satyajit Filmography

• Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy
  2012, role: writer
• Royal Bengal Rahasya
  2011, role: composer
• Royal Bengal Rahasya
  2011, role: writer
• Some Maana
  2011, role: writer
• Gorosthane Sabdhan
  2010, role: composer
• Gorosthane Sabdhan
  2010, role: writer
• Tintorettor Jishu
  2008, role: composer
• Tintorettor Jishu
  2008, role: writer
• Kailashey Kelenkari
  2007, role: writer
• Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Bombaiyer Bombete
  2003, role: writer
• Dr. Munshir Diary
  2000, role: writer
• Dr. Munshir Diary
  2000, role: composer
• Ray
  1999, role: composer
• Baksha Rahasya
  1996, role: composer
• Baksha Rahasya
  1996, role: writer
• Target
  1995, role: writer
• Uttoran
  1994, role: writer
• Uttoran
  1994, role: writer
• The 64th Annual Academy Awards
  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself - Honorary Award Recipient
• Agantuk
  1991, role: writer
• Agantuk
  1991, role: producer
• Goopy Bagha Phire Elo
  1991, role: composer
• Agantuk
  1991, role: composer
• Agantuk
  1991, role: director
• Agantuk
  1991, role: writer
• Goopy Bagha Phire Elo
  1991, role: writer
• Agantuk
  1991, role: writer
• Shakha Proshakha
  1990, role: director
• Shakha Proshakha
  1990, role: writer
• Shakha Proshakha
  1990, role: writer
• Shakha Proshakha
  1990, role: composer
• Ganashatru
  1989, role: writer
• Ganashatru
  1989, role: director
• Ganashatru
  1989, role: composer
• Sukumar Ray
  1987, role: director
• Kissa Kathmandu Kaa
  1986, role: writer
• Sadgati
  1984, role: director
• Sadgati
  1984, role: writer
• Sadgati
  1984, role: composer
• Ghare-Baire
  1984, role: director
• Sadgati
  1984, role: writer
• Ghare-Baire
  1984, role: composer
• The Music of Satyajit Ray
  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Ghare-Baire
  1984, role: writer
• Phatik Chand
  1983, role: composer
• Phatik Chand
  1983, role: writer
• Phatik Chand
  1983, role: writer
• Satyajit Ray
  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Pikoor Diary
  1981, role: writer

Famous quotes by Satyajit Ray:

"I learnt framing by watching him work on the camera. He would always encourage me and now I have a collection of 90,000 photos of Ray."

"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."

"I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time."

"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."

"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."

"There's always some room for improvisation."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."

"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."

"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."

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

"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."