Mira Nair Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.”

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

“Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.”

“Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.”

“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.”

“I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.”

“I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.”

“In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.”

“It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.”