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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

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films. - Mira Nair

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother. - Mira Nair

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on. - Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. - Mira Nair

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

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention. - 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'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience. - 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

The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place. - Mira Nair

I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day. - Mira Nair

I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually every morning, a lot of Abdullah Ibrahim, Michael Kiwanuka, Savages, and contemporary Ugandan pop. - Mira Nair

The film itself should interact with the audience. In the case of 'Queen of Katwe', people are laughing, sobbing and dancing. I am taking them on a ride... It is not like I am asking them for handouts. - Mira Nair

I am actually a resident of three worlds - of America, of India, and of Africa. I live in Uganda most of the year. It's extraordinary to have that worldview that is an expansive one rather than just looking at the world from where you sit. - 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

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live. - Mira Nair

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

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

Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do things that I don't have to do. - Mira Nair

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us. - Mira Nair

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