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" My family is vital to me - just the sense of being surrounded by no pretension. "
Mira Nair
Family
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" 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. "
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" Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. "
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" It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching. "
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" I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth. "
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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'm the bullheaded type, and I really don't give up if I fall in love. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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
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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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" Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day. "
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" In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. "
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