I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.