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.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

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.

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

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