The following is an interview with Elliot Meyerowitz, George W. Beadle Professor of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and former Chair of Biology Division at the California Institute of Technology. The interview was conducted by his friend and colleague, Daphne Preuss, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at The University of Chicago. The Interview was recorded at the Kerckhoff building on the Caltech Campus in Pasadena, California on November 8th, 2002.