The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

All done by kindness.

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.

For better or worse, he was my soul mate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.

I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.

Fear created gods; audacity created kings.