“'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that t...” — Mira Nair Quote

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

“A lot of us feel that we are against the war; we are against profiling and are against what is happening. We are tired of war in every manifestation. American people do not all believe in what the government has been doing.”

“In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.”

“My mother is a lawyer by profession. Now she has shifted with me in Bombay. I lost my father a long back.”

“'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.”

“Films were always a passion for me but it was when I saw 'Salaam Bombay' that I decided that it was film direction that I was interested in. That is when I decided I wanted to direct films.”