If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

I think Jim [Carrey], in the best possible way, thought, "I need to do different things to establish to the audience that I'm not going to do the same thing every time."

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

Literally, my last call was with David Blaine, congratulating him on his show. I have a camaraderie with David.

Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.