I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.