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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."

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Aberjhani

"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."

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Aberjhani

"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."

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Aberjhani

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

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Aberjhani

"I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it."

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Aberjhani

"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."

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Aberjhani

"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."

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Aberjhani

"Doing cinema is not about watching yourself."

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Aberjhani

"Cinema was my rite of passage."

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Aberjhani

"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."

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Aberjhani

"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."

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

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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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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."

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

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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."

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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."

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