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" 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. "
Mira Nair
I Am
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" I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience. "
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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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" 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've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't think boldness should be associated with showing off skin. It's not the basis of boldness. "
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" I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything. "
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" Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world. "
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" 'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live. "
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" My close friends call me the bulldozer who never says no. I have never not made a film. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. "
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" Humility is not a trait I often associate with America. "
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" I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure. "
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" New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on. "
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" When people break up, after sharing their entire souls with each other, I don't want to believe that you just switch off. There are remnants of melancholia, and there is so much that stays with you because you loved this person. Of course, it's that much more complicated when it's an interracial love or love from a person from another culture. "
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" In Uganda, I am surrounded, unfortunately, by evangelicals; I can't bear it. Every night I hear the chants of Baptists urging people to be born again. "
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