I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.