Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa and Ray were acquainted. Kurosawa said of Ray's work, "To have not seen the
films of Ray is to have lived in the world without ever having seen the
moon and the sun.".
For the cinema it's much better to be more concentrated in time. It's an instinctive feeling: I can't put it into words why I feel like that. The film's better if the period is a day or a week or fortnight or a month, so that nobody grows up: everybody's as they were in the beginning.
