If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

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.

Create your own path.

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me."

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.