It is shocking that the screen does not reflect the way the world is and the diversity in the world… What the world really looks like should be on screen, and it isn’t. Mira Nair Read Quote
Queen of Katwe’ is an absolutely true story. And it’s wonderful. But it’s not about saviors. Your only savior is yourself – but yourself with your community. It’s never alone. You have to have someone who believes in you. Mira Nair Read Quote
I dream of living off the land completely – in vain, because the monkeys eat everything. Mira Nair Read Quote
I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan’s ‘Raga Khamaj’ and ‘Raga Jaijaiwanti’ virtually every morning, a lot of Abdullah Ibrahim, Michael Kiwanuka, Savages, and contemporary Ugandan pop. Mira Nair Read Quote
I think, in terms of activism associated with my films, be it ‘Salaam Baalak Trust’ or ‘Maisha,’ taking the idea of cinema as a way to change people, I feel heartened. I am glad that we have impacted thousands of lives. Mira Nair Read Quote
You’ve got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, ‘This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.’ Mira Nair Read Quote
Once 9/11 happened, people who looked like me and whose children looked like us and whose husbands looked of a community, really were made to feel quite the other, and I thought that was impossible in a city like New York but I myself was witness to that. Mira Nair Read Quote
New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it’s weird. Mira Nair Read Quote