4 Quotes & Sayings By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is an Indian Jewish film director, screenwriter, and author. She has written more than twenty books, the most notable of which is The Heat of the Day (1987), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She has directed films such as the critically-acclaimed Heat of the Sun (2002), which was awarded both the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. She is currently working on a new film set in India.

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She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala