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Mira Nair

Indian Director

Born: Oct 15, 1957

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Related authors: Farhan Akhtar Gautham Menon Karan Johar Mahesh Bhatt Pooja Bhatt Ram Gopal Varma Satyajit Ray Vikramaditya Motwane

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. Mira Nair

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

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Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game. Mira Nair

Freedom Me Game Creative Imperative Exist Hollywood Really

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

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. Mira Nair

Truth Truth Is More Powerful Than Often Fiction Much Stranger

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about. Mira Nair

You Films Those About Making Want Company

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. Mira Nair

Myself Me People Witness Impossible Thought Made Community Other Once City Husbands Feel New Like Looked Were York Quite New York Children Happened Us Really Who Whose

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche. Mira Nair

Hope Home World White Films On-Screen Financed Those Indian See Diverse Feel Like Does Am Still Male Up Waking Waking Up America Screen Want Avalanche Themselves Who Start

I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff. Mira Nair

Life Love Struggle Passion Own Without Sake Just Not Interested Interested

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. Mira Nair

Art Nature Me Every Think Pleasure About Gives Terrible Springs Optimism Essence Taught Rhythm Much Gardener

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with. Mira Nair

Life Politics Family You Yourself Society Films Say Something Student Feeding Make Fuels Your

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side. Mira Nair

Character Other Side Way Kind About Never Know Iraq America Get Sitting Any Afghanistan Movies Many Believable

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 Attitude Dignity Everyday Life Country Beauty Big Live Everyday On-Screen Backdrop See Rather Never Around Always Continent Than Africa Screen Place Used Certainly Specific Street Associated

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

No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out. Mira Nair

You Out No-One Make Stick Goes Movies Pakistan

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