Make deals with people, not paper.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people.

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.