As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

I plan on becoming an American citizen and bringing over my family.