You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go piss in the corner and everybody will say, "Fantastic!" But somebody's going to have to catch that sucker. Somebody's going to have to play the guy who gets him in the end. And that's a better part.

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

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].