What's great is when you're shooting at the same hotel you're living in, you finish shooting, put your stuff down, take an elevator and go to bed.

We always feel safest, I think, around the most dangerous person who's on your side, more than the nice good person who's on your side.

You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it.

It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

You'll never meet a nicer person, let alone a nicer actress, than Mary Steenburgen.

Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.