Penn and Teller love the very intellectual side of magic. Me, I'm more fun than them. They never look like they're having fun. They look angry.

All types of magic performance have a purpose. Even if it's an amateur who's trying out slight of hand on YouTube.

Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn't spend it - especially if she doesn't spend it.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.