33 Quotes by Theodore Melfi

You know what the truth is? You don't find Bill Murray. Bill Murray finds you.

NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.

One thing that's nice about doing a movie about people that hardly anyone knows, you never worry if they're a perfect match.

Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.

We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.

We're very, very flawed, myself included.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

I think if characters change too much, it's unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn't just disappear.

We don't have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don't think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space.