“I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.” — Satyajit Ray Quote

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

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.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

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.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts.

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

I was raised on an Indian reservation, and I didn't see a television set till I was 10, so it's not a part of my life.