Jed Mercurio Quotes

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

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We used to think that our destiny is in the stars. Now we know that its in our genes, in our DNA.

… the policy of genes

We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.

We have discovered over 95 percent of all the genes that have been discovered by science off the deck of my sailboat.

It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.

What I like about the Carpenter take on 'The Thing' is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.

My DNA is building a product and a service.

It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.

I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

As a kid I was obsessed with monster movies.

I love, love, love, love horror movies.

After 'Saw,' we got offered every horror remake under the sun, and I was just always thinking, 'I don't see how this could be interesting for me.'

Filmmaking has been my love since my mother brought me to see James Whale's 'Frankenstein' at the local library at the age of six.

Me and my parents would watch old 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' and all those old black and white movies - as a kid, I'd lie in bed thinking that they would come out at night.

The funny thing is, I was not a fan of horror when I was a kid. I was scared to watch scary movies. And then along came 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.' And I like those films because they made scary funny, and it was kind of ironic that I ended up doing the 'Hotel' movies.

Genetically, I am built big and strong.

When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.