- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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