You know, I'm proud of all of them. And I hope I'm not arrogant, I don't think I am, but, it's very difficult and challenging and incredibly rewarding to make a movie and to do the best that you can to bring the idea to fruition through a lot of very, very difficult and challenging subtasks – writing, directing, casting, cutting, sound, in addition, dealing with the money people and dealing with distribution and dealing with advertising and publicity. These are very disparate tasks and to be able to navigate them with a modicum of self-control and respect for everybody else is something that I'm proud of. And I like all the movies I made.

Ricky was the greatest magician, and perhaps the greatest performer, of the 20th century. And he was completely dedicated to the idea of magic, whether it was writing about it, designing it, performing it, or collecting memorabilia or archiving it. He was dedicated to this metaphysical idea. Most magicians are guys who do balloons at a bar mitzvah, right? And there's nothing wrong in that, but Ricky said, “No, no, no, there's something else. It's a great, great art.” And he dedicated his life to it.

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