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. Mira Nair Read Quote
We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism. Mira Nair Read Quote
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely. Mira Nair Read Quote
We all know the power of film; we all know there’s almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do. Mira Nair Read Quote
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it’s subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. Mira Nair Read Quote
Salaam Bombay’ didn’t put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live. Mira Nair Read Quote
Katwe is fifteen minutes from my home. It’s entirely about knowing it from the inside. For instance, the incredible vibrancy of style. Kampala is the center of used clothing in the world. Everyone dresses in secondhand clothes, but they look astonishing for it. Mira Nair Read Quote
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. Mira Nair Read Quote
I don’t think boldness should be associated with showing off skin. It’s not the basis of boldness. Mira Nair Read Quote
I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work. Mira Nair Read Quote