Ismail Merchant Quotes

#1. I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV ... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

Aasif Mandvi

#2. Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

Glenn Close

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

Ismail Merchant

#4. 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.

Ismail Merchant

#5. The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

Anders Chydenius

#6. 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.

Ismail Merchant

#7. 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.

Ismail Merchant

#8. It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

Ismail Merchant

#9. 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.

Ismail Merchant

#10. Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

Jay McInerney

#11. 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.

Ismail Merchant

#12. I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

Vince Flynn

#13. Compare yourself to others for inspiration not competition

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#14. Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.

LeAnne Mechelle

#15. 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.

Ismail Merchant

#16. Cinders. Embers. Ashes. Michelle hoped that whatever strength had allowed this child to survive the fire all those years ago was a strength that still burned inside her. That it would go on burning, hotter and hotter, until she was as bright as the rising sun. She

Marissa Meyer

#17. Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Ismail Merchant

#18. I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

Jehane Noujaim

#19. 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.

Ismail Merchant