The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
— Satyajit Ray · Century
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.
I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
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.
There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.
To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.