Quote by Mira Nair
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are a

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

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You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us – brown people – were looked at as the Others. – Mira Nair

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

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Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesnt really exist in a Hollywood game. – Mira Nair

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It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him. – Baudouin I

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. – George Orwell

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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. – Chelsea Clinton

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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. – Hans A. Bethe

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