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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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Amber Hurdle

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

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Amber Hurdle

"My father started me singing in church."

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Amber Hurdle

"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

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Amber Hurdle

"My father loved people, children and pets."

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Amber Hurdle

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

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Amber Hurdle

"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."

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Amber Hurdle

"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."

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Amber Hurdle

"I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension."

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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."

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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
"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."

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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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