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Mira Nair Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Beauty Attitude Live Place

You learn on every film so much.

Learn You Film Much Every

When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise.

Saying Criticism Enough House Person

There's a slew of actors that I'd love to work with. I'd love to work with Gary Oldman. He seems like not only a solid dude and a good man, but a pretty inspired actor.

John Pyper-Ferguson

Work Love Good Man Good Man Actor

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring.

Conversation Real Always Anybody Any

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Technology Age Time Travel Sleep

If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down.

You Down Will Leaning Ever

America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.

Change Power Alone People Black

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

Mary Steenburgen

Love I Am Enough Lucky Take Jobs

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

World Small Small Town Standards Up

My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.

Time Perfection Three First Weeds

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Baseball I Am Red Go Cap T-Shirt

Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he's a great show runner.

Love Heart Great People You Fall

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