Rewriting Literature
A Conversation With Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
By Phillip Williams
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/rewriting_literature_2444/
Over the course of a career that began some 40 years ago, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has penned over 20 screenplays-almost exclusively for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. In Q & A with MM, Jhabvala discusses her lates film, The Golden Bowl, her longtime collaboration with the Merchant/Ivory team and the difficulties in adapting literature to the big screen.