Quote by Mira Nair
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or opp

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether its subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. – Mira Nair

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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. – Mira Nair

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War
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In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but its not a conversation, its a monologue. Its always from one point of view. If we dont tell our own stories, no one will tell them is my mantra. – Mira Nair

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movies
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Mira Nair
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I often begin movies with music in my head its a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I dont like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures. – Mira Nair

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movies
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A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. – Howard Fineman

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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. – Winston Churchill

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Politics

Money in politics is a huge issue. – Russ Feingold

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Politics

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. – Brian Mulroney

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