"I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head."

"I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people."

"I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world."

"Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can."

"It is a steadfast truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 15 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 58."

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."