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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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that."

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Amber Hurdle

"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented."

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Amber Hurdle

"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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Amber Hurdle

"Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited."

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Amber Hurdle

"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show."

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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."

Judgment

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

Love

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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."

Language

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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."

Culture

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

People

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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."

Comedy

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

Father

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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."

Cinema

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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."

Language

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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."

Wife

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