"The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files."

“Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.”

“Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Mira Nair, film director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2009.

“The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.”

“Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.”

“Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.”

“Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?”

“We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)”

“I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.”