Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.

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

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

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.

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