My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.
I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure out what kind of filmmaker I want to b… - Meera Menon
I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure out what kind of filmmaker I want to b…
- Meera Menon
It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference. - Meera Menon
It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference.
When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly be… - Meera Menon
When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly be…
Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found an incredible partner in the inimitable … - Meera Menon
Find other women to make movies with that have a shared bottom line. I did that with my first film and found an incredible partner in the inimitable …
I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues ar… - Meera Menon
I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues ar…
When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do t… - Meera Menon
When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do t…
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film company for a while. Then I worked … - Meera Menon
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film company for a while. Then I worked …
Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world… - Meera Menon
Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world…
I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my friends but I wasn't quite sur… - Meera Menon
I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my friends but I wasn't quite sur…
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