I Don't Do Stunts - I Do

I Just Don't Think Of Age And Time In Respect Of Years. I Have Too Much Experience Of People In Their Seventies Who Are Vigorous And Useful And People Who Are Thirty-five Who Are In Lousy Physical Shape And Can't Think Straight. I Don't Think Age Has That Much To Do With It.

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].

I Knew That There Was An Aspect To This Story That Was Beyond The Typical And That It Was Something Very Important About America, About Our Culture, And About Bringing A Story To A New Generation That Perhaps Didn't Know The Details Of It, (and) Hadn't Had The Visceral Experience That This Film Is [42].

What I Found Was An Emotional Consistency With Him. The Words, The Scenes, The Situations - I Wasn't Mimicking What I Thought Branch Rickey's Emotional Reality Would Have Been.

I Try To Preserve A Certain Amount Of Time Away From The Movies, So I Don't Allow Time To Do Those Smaller Parts That Might Give Me An Opportunity To Do More Seemingly 'artful' Things. Although, Having Said That, I Don't Feel Any Lack Of Noble Purpose If I Do A Film That's Commercial.