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• 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:

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

• Mira Nair:

  I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

• Mira Nair:

  Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

• Mira Nair:

  I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the mus

• Mira Nair:

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

• Mira Nair:

  In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental w

• Mira Nair:

  You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I fe

• Mira Nair:

  We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an

• Mira Nair:

  My films, no one else will do.