Top 94 Quotes by Mira Nair

About Mira Nair

These are some quotes by Indian author Mira Nair Director, who was born on October 15, 1957.

I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

Mira Nair

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

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

Mira Nair

I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.

I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.

Mira Nair

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.

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

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.

Mira Nair

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche.

Mira Nair

No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out.

No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out.

Mira Nair

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

Mira Nair

I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films.

I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films.

Mira Nair

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.

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.

Mira Nair

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