For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn't live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he's not on the stage he's on a bus getting to the next stage. You don't really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.