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“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.”
Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“The best thing about being God would be making the heads.”
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“Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.”
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“The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 378), 1895.
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“Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You need the minimum amount of education and training, and society needs to find a way to study music - not only the performances, but how to compose, how to understand why Mozart was great at what he did.”
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“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.”
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“Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.”
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“I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.”
