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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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. – Mira Nair

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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. – Alfred Adler

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. – Noam Chomsky

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My father was in the First World War. – Doris Lessing

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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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