Ismail Merchant Quotes

• Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Sadness

• Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, English, Films

• Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it’s also the language of the Hindus.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Die, Language

• This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Wanted, Comedy

• The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture, Caused

• It’s about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wife, Important

• It’s about a father and daughter and the daughter’s friend and her relationship with her current husband.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Husband, Friend

• I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Proud, Name

• A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it’s all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it’s not going to diminish.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words, Few

• We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

  Ismail Merchant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Times, Movie, Terrible

Ismail Merchant (10)

Birth:	25th December, 1936
Death:	25th May, 2005
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Actor, Director

About

Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer and director. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards.

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