If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. Mira Nair More Quotes by Mira Nair More Quotes From 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 communitymotherteacherlove 'No words - action' was the lesson my mother taught me: as artists, we have the privilege of holding a mirror to the world, to engage, to question, to bring beauty to a complex universe. Mira Nair mirrormemotherbeauty I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room. Mira Nair cinemaeditingrealityschool We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing. Mira Nair racialseeinglessonshatred I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love. Mira Nair parentsyoutimelove We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism. Mira Nair africaneverseeclass I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive. Mira Nair mehumanityhappyculture From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed. Mira Nair personneverdeerhouse
