James Ivory : (4)

" You know, if the filmmakers were satisfied with the film they just made, they could jump right in and make another one, instead of lingering on the last one. " - James Ivory

" I was constantly going to the movies. My parents let me see whatever I wanted to and they only pulled me out of one movie in my life. That was ‘Gunga Din’ and they thought it was too violent. " - James Ivory

" I think the Merchant Ivory brand really means literate dialogue. I think it starts with that. When people say something, you know it has some sort of ripples to it. " - James Ivory

" I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like, say, a book like ‘The Golden Bowl’, that would take her months and I wouldn’t know what she was doing, really. " - James Ivory