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" I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day. "
Mira Nair
Two
Hour
Music
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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. "
Mira Nair
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Home
City
" 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. "
Mira Nair
Way
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" 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. "
Mira Nair
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" You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.' "
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" 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. "
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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. "
Mira Nair
Think
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Glasses
" It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now. "
Mira Nair
Winter
Way
Three
" 'No words - action' was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to the world, to engage, to question, to bring beauty to a complex universe. "
Mira Nair
Mother
Beauty
Me
" Every frame and every scene has to have an intention. "
Mira Nair
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Every
" I don't think boldness should be associated with showing off skin. It's not the basis of boldness. "
Mira Nair
Off
Think
Skin
" It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching. "
Mira Nair
I Can
Art
Only
" 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. "
Mira Nair
Game
Women
Vision
" The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place. "
Mira Nair
Life
Beauty
Live
" If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. "
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Our
" I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions! "
Mira Nair
Trees
Time
Real
" Katwe is fifteen minutes from my home. It's entirely about knowing it from the inside. For instance, the incredible vibrancy of style. Kampala is the center of used clothing in the world. Everyone dresses in secondhand clothes, but they look astonishing for it. "
Mira Nair
Look
Clothes
World
" India somehow constantly rivets and inspires me, and I feel very relieved to have come from this country which has a very 'lifeist' approach to living fully, no matter what one has or doesn't have. "
Mira Nair
Feel
Matter
Country
" We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism. "
Mira Nair
Africa
Class
Fact
" 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. "
Mira Nair
School
Editing
Reality
" With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story. "
Mira Nair
Character
War
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" We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me. "
Mira Nair
Home
Profile
Three
" Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on. "
Mira Nair
Answer
Try
You
" 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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Live
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" I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. "
Mira Nair
Mirror
Politics
Help
" 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. "
Mira Nair
Believe
Loved
Love
" I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere. "
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You
Time
Think
" Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before. "
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Before
You
Did
" I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth. "
Mira Nair
Independent
My Own
Own
" The film itself should interact with the audience. In the case of 'Queen of Katwe', people are laughing, sobbing and dancing. I am taking them on a ride... It is not like I am asking them for handouts. "
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" Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. "
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