It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's no longer about people with huge brains. Now it's really much more, as Jim Cameron says, the nature of being human. What it is to be human in society. How to retain one's humanity in society.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.