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" A lot of us feel that we are against the war; we are against profiling and are against what is happening. We are tired of war in every manifestation. American people do not all believe in what the government has been doing. "
American
People
War
" Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual. "
Outside
Come
Being
" As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive. "
Story
Alive
Director
" Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same. "
Way
Audience
Hollywood
" Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong. "
Christmas
You
Feel
" Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game. "
Me
Game
Freedom
" Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you're a terrorist; if you're an American, you might be a militarist. Those kind of prisms that we see each other through are really stultifying, and they don't often show the complexity and the incredible warmth and encompassing of the world. "
You
Show
Kind
" Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world. "
Film
World
See
" Every frame and every scene has to have an intention. "
Scene
Intention
Every
" For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films. "
Tradition
Cinema
Myself
" From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed. "
House
Person
Who
" Humility is not a trait I often associate with America. "
Trait
Associate
America
" I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty. "
World
I Am
Honesty
" I am actually a resident of three worlds - of America, of India, and of Africa. I live in Uganda most of the year. It's extraordinary to have that worldview that is an expansive one rather than just looking at the world from where you sit. "
I Am
Live
Looking
" I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth. "
Independent
My Own
Own
" I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do. "
Home
I Am
Life
" I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche. "
I Am
Hope
America
" I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories. "
I Am
Society
Seek
" I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room. "
School
Editing
Reality
" I don't think boldness should be associated with showing off skin. It's not the basis of boldness. "
Off
Think
Skin
" I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive. "
Happy
World
Me
" I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything. "
Eat
Dream
Land
" If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. "
Will
Else
Our
" I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world. "
Books
Small
World
" I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. "
World
Always
Small
" I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game. "
Game
Women
Vision
" I immediately was captured by 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist.' It gave me a springboard into contemporary Pakistan and a dialogue between Pakistan and the rest of the world. "
Dialogue
World
Pakistan
" I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis. "
Feel
Know
Dream
" I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day. "
Two
Hour
Music
" I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually every morning, a lot of Abdullah Ibrahim, Michael Kiwanuka, Savages, and contemporary Ugandan pop. "
Listen
Lot
Morning
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