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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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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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 became what I wanted to be.
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I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
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I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
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Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true.
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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.
