Having WORKED with so many of the geniuses, I'd LEARNED so much. It's the best sort of PHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOL, to WORK with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

A lot of the younger INDIAN generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've SEEN in L.A. who are Indian is just CRAZY. So it is a very COMMON thing. Or an ACCOUNTANT! That again is a very, very big thing.

PEOPLE CALL me a genius. I don't know MUCH about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I WORKED hard.

Alan Turing is so important to me and to the WORLD, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a BIG thing to TAKE up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the GREAT geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from CHICAGO.

We can all be GENIUSES because one definition of genius is the INFINITE CAPACITY for taking PAINS.

The USA marketing team are geniuses at what they do. They do the right kind of thing for EVERY MEDIUM. They're very active on SOCIAL media; they're releasing videos every DAY up to the premiere.

Buckminster Fuller was one of those WORLD historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary THINGS that are POSSIBLE, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!

We have to SET our own agenda, we have to set our own STANDARDS, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our PASSION and if it's not RIGHT for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

You KNOW, Leonard Cohen is AMAZING, just a mastermind, and really one of the GREAT geniuses of our TIME.

When people SAY that the Internet is going to MAKE US all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other HAND, when they say the Internet is going to make us STUPID, that also was said about the telegraph.

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I WORK hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I LOOK under every rock.

In their infancy, STARTUPS NEED geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they PUSH towards an ambitious vision - and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early USERS, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.

I think the makeup and the effects that I SAW on 'The Walking Dead,' I'd NEVER seen anything like that in my LIFE. Those guys are just geniuses.

I've written about superheroes. I've written about TALKING ferrets and math geniuses being chased by MADMEN. I've written about spies and demon-hunting SOCCER moms. I've CREATED an entire world that centers around a paranormal JUDICIAL system.

Oh, there's so MUCH EGO with men; in their HEAD, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their DAY with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.