Mira Nair Quotes
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If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.
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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 is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
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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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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.
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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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My films, no one else will do.
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I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.