"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
christmasView Quote
"We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.“
-Mira Nair
posted in knowledge
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"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
weddingView Quote
"My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people."
-Mira Nair
weddingView Quote
"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
warView Quote
"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
sadView Quote
"I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves."
-Mira Nair
politicsView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
knowledgeView Quote
"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
knowledgeView Quote
"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
knowledgeView Quote
"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
knowledgeView Quote
"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
knowledgeView Quote
"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
knowledgeView Quote