I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

For 'Seabiscuit,' I interviewed 100 people I never met.

I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life

My work was entirely nonfiction.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.