Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

My father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his father, and it's also about converting X-rated material, namely bondage, into family friendly safe fare, which is what he did. It's also about death and resurrection, and rising to live again another day when everyone thinks you're dead.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.