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" As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive. "
Mira Nair
Story
Alive
Director
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" Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. "
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" It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching. "
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" I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. "
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" I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses. "
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" Once 9/11 happened, people who looked like me and whose children looked like us and whose husbands looked of a community, really were made to feel quite the other, and I thought that was impossible in a city like New York but I myself was witness to that. "
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" I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day. "
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" You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.' "
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" 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. "
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" I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives. "
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" Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game. "
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" We want the diversity of the world that is around us represented both in front of and behind the camera, and on our screens as a result. "
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Camera
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" It is shocking that the screen does not reflect the way the world is and the diversity in the world... What the world really looks like should be on screen, and it isn't. "
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" Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do things that I don't have to do. "
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Time
" Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual. "
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Being
" 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. "
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" There's nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It's sort of the fabric and anchor of our country. "
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" If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. "
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" I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work. "
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Nobody
Work
Small
" Humility is not a trait I often associate with America. "
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Trait
Associate
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" To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with. "
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" 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. "
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" We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism. "
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" 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. "
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" Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named. "
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" I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures. "
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" What's nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That's the fun part. "
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" I think, in terms of activism associated with my films, be it 'Salaam Baalak Trust' or 'Maisha,' taking the idea of cinema as a way to change people, I feel heartened. I am glad that we have impacted thousands of lives. "
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" They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.' "
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" Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on. "
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