What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

- Mira Nair

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.

- Mira Nair

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it…

- Mira Nair

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

- Mira Nair

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

- Mira Nair

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

- Mira Nair

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

- Mira Nair

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

- Mira Nair

It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

- Mira Nair