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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
- Final Cut
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Frame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Films
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- Nov 07, 2020
My films, no one else will do.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Associate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
- Convent
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It's sort of the fabric and anchor of our country.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.
- Africa
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020