Mira Nair Quotes

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• If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

  Mira Nair

  Stories, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

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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.

  Mira Nair

  Heart, Elephants, Challenges

  "Portrait of the artist: Mira Nair, film director". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2009.

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

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  Stones, Stepping Stones, Treats

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• It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

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  Strong, Roots, I Can

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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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  Powerful, People, Looks

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• What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

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  Important, Life Is, Boring

  Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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

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  Political, World, Film

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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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  Real, Communication, Understanding

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• 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.

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  Inspiration, People, Stories

  "A Minute With: Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

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  Intention, Scene

  "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

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• I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

  Mira Nair

  Book, India, World

  "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

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

  Mira Nair

  Peculiar, Fiction, Life Is

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• 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

  Love, Hard Work, Interesting

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• My films, no one else will do.

  Mira Nair

  Film

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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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  Believe, Pride, Play

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• I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

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  Independent, Cutting, Firsts

  "'Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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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.

  Mira Nair

  Halos, Bombay, Poor

  "A Minute With: Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 22, 2013.

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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.

  Mira Nair

  Dream, Useless Things, Nostalgia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

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  Trying, Answers, Film

  "Portrait of the artist: Mira Nair, film director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2009.

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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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  Games, Creative, Hollywood

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• Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

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  Humility, America, Traits

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• I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

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  Sweet, Important, Sound

  Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2007.

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• I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

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  Done, Lists, Audience

  "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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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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  Children, Honesty, Clothes

  Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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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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  Believe, Character, Who I Am

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