Happy Birthday: James Ivory

Happy Birthday director James Ivory

Born: James Francis Ivory
June 7, 1928 in Berkeley, California, USA

QUOTES:

[on his affinity to India] It wasn’t as though I had a childhood preoccupation with India. It was completely accidental and was based on my seeing The River (1951) and later on seeing a group of miniature Indian paintings. And then, most important, seeing the films of Ray, the Apu trilogy. That’s what really got me started – a combination of things spread out over a period of six or so years.

[1984 interview] The first book she gave me to read was “The Europeans”; then I went through them all. But it’s very hard to get financing for a Henry James story. I spent many years trying with The Europeans (1979) and finally got the money from Britain. And the same with this one: a little American money, but, again, the English…