Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested in is creating a situation in which people get some emotional exercise, which makes them feel like human beings and makes them understand that they are part of the human community with all its responsibilities.

[In relationships with a directors] I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures].

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.