“Maurice' was a groundbreaking film. People didn't feel that then but looking bac…” — James Ivory

When you tell a film financier that you want to do a Shakespeare film, their face drops. Shakespeare films don't have a very wonderful history at the box office.

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.

I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that.

I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like, say, a book like 'The Golden Bowl', that would take her months and I wouldn't know what she was doing, really.