Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

I invented magic stuff; it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

There was another guy suggested. He was a tall and dark-haired and Jewy, and I said, "No, he's too close to me." It ended up being Jerry Seinfeld.

Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, "Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live." It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.

I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.