Bridge: 'Who told you we had long 18 hour days? We had a regular schedule, not at all rushed, worked regular hours and had regular two-day weekends, during which the crew shopped in the excellent malls of Kansas City, Paul Newman raced cars somewhere, unknown to us and the insurance company, and I lay on a couch reading The Remains of the Day.' On Jessica Tandy as Miss Birdseye in The Bostonians: 'Jessica Tandy was seventy-two or something, and she felt she had to 'play' being an old woman, to 'act' an old woman. The main thing is, no one ever truly interferes in the area of work of the other.' On Shooting Mr. Though Ismail and I disagree sometimes, Ruth acts as a referee, or she and I may gang up on him, or vice versa. Govenment I'm the President, Ismail is the Congress, and Ruth is the Supreme Court. James Ivory on: On the Merchant Ivory Jhabvala partnership: 'I've always said that Merchant Ivory is a bit like the U. Supported by seventy illuminating photographs selected by Ivory himself, the book offers a wealth of previously unavailable information about the director's life and the art of making movies. In this deeply engaging book, he comments on the many aspects of his world-traveling career: his growing up in Oregon (he is not an Englishman, as most Europeans and many Americans think), his early involvement with documentary films that first brought attention to him, his discovery of India, his friendships with celebrated figures here and abroad, his skirmishes with the Picasso family and Thomas Jefferson scholars, his usually candid yet at times explosive relations with actors. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as A Room with a Viewand The Remains of the Day,Ivory speaks with remarkable candor and wit about his more than forty years as an independent filmmaker. James Ivory in Conversationis an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents.

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