121 Quotes by Mira Nair

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

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

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

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

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.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.