Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.

I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.