Mira Nair Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: October 15, 1957

Topics

LifeFamilyPoliticsYourselfYou

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

Joanna Lumley

YouRulesKindNeedEverythingOut

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

John Dryden

TimeActionGeniusBornPlaceNever

It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'

Jeff Lemire

FearHeartCulturePeopleWorldWay

I'm an old soul. I like the Nat King Cole; Sam Cooke is my favorite singer of all time. But I'm into neo-soul; I'm into R&B. Some of the modern stuff appeals to me, but most of it comes from an older time.

Trai Byers

TimeSoulKingMeOldSinger

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

Mary Ellen Mark

MeCuriosityCameraConnectionNever

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

Miguel

FeelBecomeI Feel LikeLikeI Feel

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

Jonathan Dee

KindExperimentWellNovelsReader

I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.

Donald McCaig

CareKnowMoreNeedHimAnything

I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

Cindy Margolis

LifeWomenBestFeelMy LifeYoung

A full mind is an empty bat.

Branch Rickey

MindEmptyBatFull

I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

PeopleRandomWinPhoneKnowWant

When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power - which prevents politicians from compromising despite popular support on an issue - I don't have any pushback.

Sheldon Whitehouse

PowerBrokenSupportDemocracy

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