Dr. Barry Barish on Portrait:

“I thought [Portrait] captured a wonderful common feature of we scientists.

[Dr. Arrott] says he is good at asking questions, even if others are better at finding the answers. This is a crucial attribute of a scientist.  Somehow, we thankfully never grew up. As kids, we all are amazingly curious, but parents, schools and society beat it out of most of us. We even have a common expression that I hate – ‘curiosity killed the cat.’

Carl Sagan (Cosmos) once said, ‘Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.’ [Dr. Arrott] clearly was one who trickled through. He has maintained his curiosity and his wonderful drive to answer questions to the age of 90+. Your movie captures his persisting curiosity, his drive to answer his questions and, most appealing, his pleasure in the process of trying to find the answers. Your film captures this quality in him, very nicely.”

- Dr. Barry Barish, Nobel Laureate and experimental physicist