You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

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.

Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.