There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.