Mira Nair Quotes

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Mira Nair

Profession : Director

Birth : October 15, 1957

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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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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Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

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Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

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It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

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Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

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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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'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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Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

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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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We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

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Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

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I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

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From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.

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Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

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'Queen of Katwe' is an absolutely true story. And it's wonderful. But it's not about saviors. Your only savior is yourself - but yourself with your community. It's never alone. You have to have someone who believes in you.

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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 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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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.

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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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