Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.
Kumail NanjianiI was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.
Kumail NanjianiIt really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer. Sometimes I find it hard to judge my own work so it was good to have someone who could look at it. It was like, "Oh, she likes it, then it's good."
Kumail NanjianiJust because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.
Kumail Nanjiani