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

Age, Music, Poetry, Listening

28

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Age quotes

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

Age,

"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

Age, May, Youth

"The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values."

Christopher Dawson, English Writer

Age, Values, Present

"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."

Thomas Haden Church, American Actor

Age, Attention, Children, College

"Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it."

Young Buck, American Musician

Age,

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."

Muddy Waters, American Musician

Age, School

"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

Age, Information, Now

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Age, Woman

"We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active."

Susan Hampshire, English Actress

Age, Concern, Example, Living

"I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around."

Charlene Tilton, American Actress

Age, Driving, End, Night

Explore more quotes by Satyajit Ray

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

Music

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

People

"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."

Creativity

"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."

Perception

"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

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

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."

People

"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

"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