“From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person...” — Mira Nair Quote

“From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.”

“I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!”

“Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.”

“With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.”

“A reindeer is a deer with antlers, kind of close to caribou. They're small. It's like a big Great Dane. I don't think you could ride one. I couldn't, for sure.”

“I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.”