"I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema." a proposito del suo compagno, il regista James Ivory.

 (Ismail Merchant, all'anagrafe Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman, produttore cinemtografico e regista; Bombay, 25 dicembre 1936 – Londra, 25 maggio 2005)