Work Hard And Figure Out How To

It's Important Not To Base Your Ambition On Anybody Else's History, But To Figure Out How Best To Use Your Own Particular Personality And Understanding Of Yourself To Help Tell Other People's Stories.

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].

Failures Are Inevitable. Unfortunately, In Film They Live For Ever And They're 40 Ft Wide And 20 Ft High.

All I Would Tell People Is To Hold Onto What Was Individual About Themselves, Not To Allow Their Ambition For Success To Cause Them To Try To Imitate The Success Of Others. You've Got To Find It On Your Own Terms.

The Force Is Within You. Force Yourself.