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Mira Nair
Mira Nair
Indian Director
Born: Oct 15, 1957
Life Love Me People World You
Related authors: Farhan Akhtar Gautham Menon Karan Johar Mahesh Bhatt Pooja Bhatt Ram Gopal Varma Satyajit Ray Vikramaditya Motwane
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. Mira Nair
Life Time Life Is Short Exactly My Time Putting Knowing Short Where Want Things
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
Class Films Too See About Fact Never Schools Ties Africa In Fact Fancy Elitism
Every frame and every scene has to have an intention. Mira Nair
Every Frame Scene Intention
I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience. Mira Nair
People Inspired Excited Marginal Resilience
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. Mira Nair
Knowledge Communication Humanity Understanding Everywhere Out Only Reaching Real Real Knowledge Trying Realize
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it. Mira Nair
Word Believe Our Say Adolescence House Western
We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing. Mira Nair
Hatred Seeing Learned Suspicion Racial Lessons Keep Profiling
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. Mira Nair
Considered Extremely Defines Those Find Inspiring Outside Question Often Want Who
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America. Mira Nair
Humility America Trait Often Associate
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. Mira Nair
Me Happy Culture Humanity Speak World Language Values Other Relationships Our Distinct Say Distinctive Sing Makes Common Want Each Beliefs Foundation
From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed. Mira Nair
Films Destroyed Hunter About Never Had House His Iraq Person Vietnam Who Deer
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. Mira Nair
World Indian Dreamed Small Small Town Town Remote Always Up Very Grew Which Standards Even
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.' Mira Nair
You Final Final Cut Say Harvey Some Open Weinstein Arkansas Said America Anything Mean Cut Your They Say Film Now
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth. Mira Nair
First Own Independent My Own Always Am Foremost Cloth Cut
It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching. Mira Nair
Art Age Word Say Only Without
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
People Society Considered Those Seek About Inspiration Outside Attracted Am Still Stories Who
I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world. Mira Nair
World Books India Small Through Small Town Knew Town Up Grew
If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. Mira Nair
Will Own Else Our Tell No-One Stories
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. Mira Nair
Conversation World Will Own Our Tell About Point Point Of View No-One Islamic Islamic World Always America Stories Movies Them Much View Mantra Many Media Monologue
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.' Mira Nair
Sad Home You People Others City Brown Horrific Sad Thing Like Know Looked Course Felt Were Decades Which Us Suddenly Thing Two
Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named. Mira Nair
Life Character Seen Films Other Side Disturbing Faceless Named Know Cultural American Screaming Even Pakistani
Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world. Mira Nair
You World Political Every See How Political Act Act Film
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
Politics Humanity People Human Being Mirror Big Situation Ourselves Between Look Within However Oppressive May Human Being Want Human Beings Hold Whether Us Help Beings Two
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble. Mira Nair
Work Love Hard Work Family You Marriage Better Own Adjustment Would Would-Be India Marry Similar Attraction Well Make Equally Common Anyway Interesting Might Much Gamble Your Hard Less Comparison Now
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual. Mira Nair
You Outside Highly Come Unusual Beds America American Being Anywhere Used Bombed
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. Mira Nair
Work Master Beginning Own Films Though Independent My Own Small Nobody Make Always However Were Even Started
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