“While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also ...” — Kalyani Priyadarshan Quote

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

The best thing my parents did was to make me study in Chennai. I was in a school where most others around me were also from film industry families so none of us realised what our parents were.

I never thought I would debut in a Telugu film; it was my destiny to take up a film that, incidentally, was about destiny.

Being a heroine in Vikram Kumar sir's film is everybody's wish.

I feel that I would perform really well if there was no camera in front of me. But when there is one, and the director says 'Action!' I freeze.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.