The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.