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• ‟ I think you can study too much. I've seen that happen. Young people get immersed in the work of other directors and end up imitating them rather than finding their own identity.

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• ‟ Most of my films are set in an upper-middle-class world of well-off people who may have all kinds of emotional problems, but they live well.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ It came right on the heels of A Room With A View. And that was such an enormous success, so I think people were hoping that Maurice would also have that kind of success.

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• ‟ You know, a lot of people give up their religion, but, oh, my goodness, they go through such agonies. I never did.

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• ‟ It's always a matter of convincing the insurance people. They seem to think that after a certain age, you're just going to fall over or something.

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• ‟ Maurice' was a groundbreaking film. People didn't feel that then but looking back everyone says that.

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