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My 22-minute film, which I called ‘The Sword and the Flute’, turned out to be a romantic film about India made by someone who had never been to India, but who already had very romantic feelings about everything Indian.

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The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and he had a different view on the world. Probably they had to contend with some sort of Oregonian-ness in me that they didn’t understand and didn’t know where it was coming from.

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The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

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May 2, 2024

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

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May 2, 2024

The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and he had a different view on the world. Probably they had to contend with some sort of Oregonian-ness in me that they didn’t understand and didn’t know where it was coming from.

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