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 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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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 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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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.
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Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
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I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
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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.
