top of page
Quote_1.png
Ismail Merchant

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

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

Exlpore more People quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

Explore more quotes by Ismail Merchant

Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Ismail Merchant
"It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband."
Quote_1.png
Ismail Merchant
"Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Ismail Merchant
"The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge."
bottom of page