Nair, Mira Filmography

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
• Words with Gods (2012)
• Solace in the Dark (2011)
• Femme (2011)
• New York, I Love You (2009)
• Amelia (2009)
• Gangsta M.D. (2008)
• Migration (2008)
• 8 (2008)
• Prarambha (2008)
• Migration (2008)
• 8 (2008)
• Positive (2007)
• Blood Brothers (2007)
• Zoom In: Stories Behind the Best Independent Films of 2007 (2007)
• Lights! Action! Music! (2007)
• The 17th Annual Gotham Awards (2007)
• Drinks with LX (2007)
• The Namesake (2006)
• The Namesake (2006)
• Wanderlust (2006)
• The 15th Annual Gotham Awards (2005)
• Bollywood Remixed - Das indische Kino erobert den Westen (2004)
• Vanity Fair (2004)
• Five Directors on 'The Battle of Algiers' (2004)
• Still, the Children Are Here (2004)
• Bollywood Calling (2003)
• Women on Top: Hollywood and Power (2003)
• Hysterical Blindness (2002)
• 11'09''01 - September 11 (2002)
• Monsoon Wedding (2001)
• Monsoon Wedding (2001)
• The Laughing Club of India (2001)
• Monsoon Wedding (2001)
• My Own Country (1998)
• My Own Country (1998)
• My Own Country (1998)
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
• The Perez Family (1995)
• The Perez Family (1995)
• The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993)
• Mississippi Masala (1991)
• Mississippi Masala (1991)
• Mississippi Masala (1991)
• Salaam Bombay! (1988)
• Salaam Bombay! (1988)
• Salaam Bombay! (1988)
• Children of a Desired Sex (1987)
• India Cabaret (1985)
• So Far from India (1983)
• Jama Masjid Street Journal (1979)

Famous quotes by Mira Nair:

"It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching."

"The media do not allow us to understand the history of what led to 9/11. The knowledge of what we are living in now is not given to the American public."

"That's the joy I have as a filmmaker, that's what I love to do. I'm very fortunate."

"[Reese Witherspoon] was the first, and ... only person that I thought who would play it, for many reasons. Number one, an actor who has to play from 17 to 35 and be convincing in both ranges. And two, we all know her extraordinary comic guile and her wit ... but she also has that irresistibility in her, that total appeal."

"The Austen novels [had] young ladies just sitting waiting to be proposed to, for God's sake. Becky had no time for that. She was born on the other side of the tracks, like most of us are, and she had to make her way."

"It's an extraordinarily funny and wonderful screenplay. It makes you laugh from the first page."

"People ask me this, but I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience."

"I like to be unabashed, which is an Indian trait, both emotionally and visually. It's important to have a circus to play with."

"I guess that would be Indian, in a way. We are used to no privacy. We are used to a lot of people in a room, sleeping on mattresses."

"I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis."