Ismail Merchant Quotes

United Kingdom, Producer
December 25, 1936 – May, 25, 2005.

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

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
- Film
- Wanted
- Wells
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
- Strong
- Language
- Urdu

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
- Men
- Important
- Writing
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
- Culture
- Film
- Feels
The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

Ismail Merchant
- Culture
- Emerge
It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

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

Ismail Merchant