"The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world."

"Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something."

"The career stuff is for business people."

"When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature."

"Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful."

"Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea."

"I have a very vivid imagination."

"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."