“If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.”

—  Satyajit Ray

In Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

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Indian author, poet, composer, lyricist, filmmaker 1921–1992

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