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Mira Nair
Indian
Director
About the author
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
Mira Nair,
Indian
Director
#World
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
Mira Nair,
Indian
Director
#Film
#First
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.
Mira Nair,
Indian
Director
#Children
#World
#Sense
#Fact
#Clothes
#Honesty
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,
Indian
Director
#Dream
#Nostalgia
It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.
Mira Nair,
Indian
Director
#Word
#Age
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
Mira Nair,
Indian
Director
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,
Indian
Director
#Now
#Film
#Open
#America
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Mira Nair,
Indian
Director
#Life
#Truth
#Fiction
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,
Indian
Director
#Want
#Question
#Inspiring