We had a lot of chatter and there were no attacks, ... Now that there's no chatter -- does that mean there will be no attack, or is there something else we should be concerned about? I don't think we have enough information to conclude what it means.

We are seeing that we are beginning to tighten in on the disease. ... Eventually, we hope that it can be contained throughout the world and not become an epidemic or an endemic disease.

Today, one of the most important means of spreading diseases around the globe is air travel.

The new approach is a more rapid approach because polio is considered a public health emergency of international importance. In an interconnected world, these viruses travel easily and don't respect international borders.

And now I'm thinking we almost have to start a lobbying effort just to be treated on an equal basis.

I'm interested in people on the fringe, ordinary people who have to deal with extraordinary things.

The governments (in Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, and Hong Kong) have reported cases, and we see in each of these areas, the case reports are decreasing and becoming more stable so we believe the epidemic may have peaked there.

It's probably not for 4-year-olds.

There are some feelings that possibly live game markets might have been associated with some of the earlier cases, but this is only hypothesis.

The best shows will survive. The audience will decide that.

We believe the outbreak has come to a peak in these areas because of information that ministries of health have given us.

What's dangerous about this is we don't know its potential. For the present, everything hinges on what we find out in China, as far as our projections [are concerned].

This is a very important intersection in the north part of the city and maybe we've been pushed aside because the people in the south have been the squeaky wheel. But maybe we have to play that game too.

Hong Kong, with its dense population and fluid border with China, had one of the hardest outbreaks to control.

[It was] the last word in mortuary chintz.

You don't bring in a director like Mike Newell and tell him, 'Well, you've got to make a film just like Chris Columbus,' ... It'd be foolish. So for me, I look this film, I see Mike Newell. I mean, I see Jo Rowling, but I see Mike Newell written all over it and that's really exciting for me.

Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue. That virus, just as it came here from the African continent, could now go from here to a neighboring country and become implanted in that country if protection rates for polio were low.

It's almost impossible to get east-west in the afternoon rush hour unless you have an hour or two to spare.

Generous, smart, funny thriller.