I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.
We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.
You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers. ' Talk about false idolatry, right?
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.
Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state.
I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras.