I immediately was captured by ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist.’ It gave me a springboard into contemporary Pakistan and a dialogue between Pakistan and the rest of the world. Mira Nair Read Quote
I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films. Mira Nair Read Quote
To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with. Mira Nair Read Quote
I’m a self-taught landscape gardener; it’s a real passion of mine. It’s what I do in my spare time because trees don’t ask questions! Mira Nair Read Quote
In Uganda, I am surrounded, unfortunately, by evangelicals; I can’t bear it. Every night I hear the chants of Baptists urging people to be born again. Mira Nair Read Quote
India somehow constantly rivets and inspires me, and I feel very relieved to have come from this country which has a very ‘lifeist’ approach to living fully, no matter what one has or doesn’t have. Mira Nair Read Quote
A lot of us feel that we are against the war; we are against profiling and are against what is happening. We are tired of war in every manifestation. American people do not all believe in what the government has been doing. Mira Nair Read Quote
When people break up, after sharing their entire souls with each other, I don’t want to believe that you just switch off. There are remnants of melancholia, and there is so much that stays with you because you loved this person. Of course, it’s that much more complicated when it’s an interracial love or love from a person from another culture. Mira Nair Read Quote
The dignity of everyday life – the beauty of it, the attitude of it – is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place. Mira Nair Read Quote
