James Ivory in conversation
Subtitle: how Merchant Ivory makes its movies
By: Robert Emmet Long ; foreword by Janet Maslin.
Contributors: Long, Robert Emmet.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Ivory, James -- Interviews.; Merchant Ivory Productions.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "James Ivory in Conversation is an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as A Room with a View and The Remains of the Day, Ivory speaks with candor and wit about his more than forty years as an independent filmmaker.

In this 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. 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.