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Mira Nair Quotes

Indian - Director | October 15, 1957 -

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

Family People Wedding Open Liberal

I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.

World Look I Can India Three Africa

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a director is a con game - a confidence game.

Confidence Women Power Vision Game

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

Freedom Creative Me Game Hollywood

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.

Character War Story Name American

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.

Power People You Powerful Look Know

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Truth Truth Is Powerful More Fiction

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

You Want Company Making Those About

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.

Home New York People City Weird You

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.

Community Children Myself New York

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.'

Character I Am Me You Understand

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

Love Want Hollywood Why Way Same

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