I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.