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"The best project is one that asks a novel question."
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"I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before."
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"I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often."
"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
"No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project."
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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."
"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."
"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself."
"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."
"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."
"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view."
"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."
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