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

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

"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."
People

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

"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."
Film

"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."
Home

"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."
Work

"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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