51 Quotes by James Ivory

I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

I'm a great looker at pictures and paintings, and so forth. That's what I look for - a kind of formal beauty. I want that in my photography. It isn't always what we conventionally think of as beauty.

It was okay but then I found myself in that position of being merely a screenwriter. And you are merely the screenwriter, and there's no way around it. You don't have the same clout as the director.

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