I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether its subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. – Mira Nair
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story. – Mira Nair
Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong. – Mira Nair
We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that theres humanity everywhere, and thats what Im trying to do. – Mira Nair
There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time. – James Young