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" I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff. "
Mira Nair
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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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" Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game. "
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" You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about. "
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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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" We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do. "
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" '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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world. "
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" No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out. "
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" In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra. "
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" I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day. "
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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 want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Humility is not a trait I often associate with America. "
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" Every frame and every scene has to have an intention. "
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" 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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" Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. "
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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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" My close friends call me the bulldozer who never says no. I have never not made a film. "
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" 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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" Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely. "
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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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" 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'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience. "
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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. "
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