“Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come ...” — Mira Nair Quote

“Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.”

“I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.”

“To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.”

“I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.”

“My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.”

“In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.”