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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.

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It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

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Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

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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.

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Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

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From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.

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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.

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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.

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I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

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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.'

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Director

Born: October 15th, 1957

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