Ismail Merchant Quotes
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.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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Film has to describe and show.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.
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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.
