I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I was going in my life.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline and makes the final discovery and catches the bad guy.

Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever the same.

When my cousin sister got married to a Muslim boy, my family was baffled. All the brothers had abandoned her. But I said there is nothing wrong in it. We have not lost our sister. In fact, we got another family member in the form of that boy.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.

My mother, Maxine, was married at 16 to my father Raymond, and in 56 years together, he was the only man she ever had.