What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

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

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

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.

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

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 just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.