I've never wanted to be the boss.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

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].

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.