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I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'
In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around.
