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00:00Merchant Ivory, it was just a golden period.
00:09I mean, basically, they made the films they wanted to make.
00:15You always felt that you were in the presence of really fascinating pirates.
00:24It was very unlikely that meeting of minds and bodies and love.
00:32You required an immense amount of stamina to work for Merchant Ivory.
00:38At the end of every movie, everyone says, never again.
00:42There was a sense of family about it.
00:44People arguing with each other, but believing in the end, we would survive any argument that we had.
00:50The more you love someone, the more you're ready to disagree with them.
00:55Their personal relationship was very, very volatile.
00:58From Ismar's point of view, Jim was going to bankrupt the business commercially.
01:02And Jim thought that Ismar was going to bankrupt it artistically.
01:05I'm just not going to make any more films, that's all.
01:08You have to be a con man to be a successful film producer anyway.
01:11What held everybody together, I think, was a belief in the stories, a belief in the films.
01:23There has to be a special feeling about your work, a passion about your work.
01:30And if that is the case, then it never dies, you see.
01:33Anything is possible.