Questions for Mira Nair: All's Fair (The New York Times' Magazine) (subscription required)

Q & A with Mira Nair on her soon-to-open film 'Vanity Fair'.

Part of the interview when Ms. Nair answers a question about Americans' knowledge of African affairs (she lives part of the time in Uganda):

Do you find Americans to be well informed about events in Africa?

Once when I was working in Hollywood and making a big movie, every time I said I was living in Uganda, they would look at me and say, ''Is that upstate?''