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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

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Mira Nair
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: October 15
Actor
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Raurkela
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It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.
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Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
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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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Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
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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.'
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