I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I think the reason why I haven't done a film in India so far is because I haven't found a script that's completely gotten my attention and made me passionate to get it made. I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. The reason why I'm making movies outside my country, bit by bit, is to be able to come back to India equipped with the knowledge and understanding of how to hopefully produce my own films one fine day.

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.

I'm a human being before anything else.