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James Ivory

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[Wikipedia] James Francis Ivory is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a principal in Merchant Ivory Productions along with Indian film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The trio made film adaptations of stories by authors such as E.M. Forster and Henry Ja

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I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.

Better

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It came right on the heels of A Room With A View. And that was such an enormous success, so I think…

I think

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I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be…

Artistic

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A lot of directors don't bother to go back and look at their films, but I do.

Back

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Did I develop any ruses of my own in order to buy what I wanted at a reasonable price? In time, of…

Business

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I wanted to make a movie once at Lake of the Woods, where my parents had a cabin, which I now have.…

Movie

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The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and…

England

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I was constantly going to the movies. My parents let me see whatever I wanted to and they only pulled me out…

Life

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In October 1959, I could scarcely wait to get off the plane that had brought me to New Delhi so that I…

Indian

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You know, if the filmmakers were satisfied with the film they just made, they could jump right in and make another one,…

Another

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I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and…

Architecture

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I was in New York one day, and this guy ran off a bus, grabbed me, and told me that 'Maurice' had…

Bus

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I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

Beautiful

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When I was doing the screenplay, people who read the book Call Me by Your Name would go, "Oh god, what are…

Accepting

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Maybe there's something in the Oregon character that pushed me into the kind of life that I took up.

Character

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Maurice' was a groundbreaking film. People didn't feel that then but looking back everyone says that.

Back

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I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that.

Computer

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I went to Europe in '52 or '53, and when I came back, I stopped in New York. I remember looking out…

Europe

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Political consequences have never really come into my thinking. I didn't think about it when we made 'Maurice' or when I said…

Come

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When I went to Europe for the first time, I went to Paris and then to Venice. So after Paris, Venice was…

City

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It was okay but then I found myself in that position of being merely a screenwriter. And you are merely the screenwriter,…

Being

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I've seen it happen with other directors. Sometimes there's a period where, if they're lucky, they get the financing where they can…

Cinema

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Helena Bonham Carter was 19 when we made 'A Room with a View'. She came for the interview in these extraordinary boots…

Dress

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I like a lot of good dialogue if it is well-acted.

Communication

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When I grew up there weren't any sort of terrible things that happened. I had very understanding friends and my parents didn't…

Live

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