"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."

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Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Satyajit Ray

#Light Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Actors Quotes

“The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.”
“I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.”
“I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.”

Source : "The Accidental Success of Adam Driver". Interview with Alex Morris, www.rollingstone.com. January 20, 2014.
“I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided”
“I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.”

Source : American Economic Association, Joan Robinson (1972). “The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971”
“Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.”
“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can actually, essentially communicate with the people in ancient Egypt, people in Rome and Greece, people in ancient Britain, people in New York in the 1920s who can communicate to us and change the way we think, and change the things that we believe. I think that books are special. Books are sacred. And I think that when you are selling books, you have to remember that in all the profits and loss, in all of that, you are treading on sacred ground.”
“The Federalist Society is this conservative legal organization. And I think, for the Bush administration, being a member of the Federalist Society meant you were - a reliable, ideological, partisan Republican. It wasn't enough just to be registered as a Republican, or to be - have a generally conservative judicial philosophy, or prosecutorial philosophy. It meant that, basically, meant that you were a real movement conservative, a Party regular. That's what being a Federalist Society member means.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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