Quote of the day, April 5 -- "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet", said Satyajit Ray.

The widely attributed lines are from his broader writings and views on cinema, from his essays collected in Our Films Their Films, which was published in 1976, where he discussed the idea that filmmaking should be deeply personal and artistic, much like poetry.

The quote by Satyajit Ray hints that filmmaking is not just about recording mere scenes, but about seeing and interpreting reality with depth and sensitivity. It is viewed as a big task, blended with an artistic sense.

When Ray refers to the "camera" as an eye here. He might have meant that the camera should function like human vision, observing, notic...