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

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.

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.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.

We live in a time of unprecedented abundance.

We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.