It's an artist's job to always have their antennas up.

I like having a studio to go to. It's like having a job.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It's a full-time, full-scale, full physical job, and a lot of times, it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family, marriage - whatever that means. It's not a 9-5 job.

I was really lucky and blessed to have had the likes of directors such as Mani Ratnam and Rajkumar Hirani in my career.

I work all the time, and I'm basically in the office from the time I wake up and then working until I go to sleep every day.

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.