Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Ismail Merchant

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian producer Ismail Merchant.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Ismail Merchant (born Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included Director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Indian - Producer | December 25, 1936 - May 25, 2005

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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

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

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

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

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

Ismail Merchant

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

Ismail Merchant

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

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

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

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

Ismail Merchant

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Ismail Merchant

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