"When I was a child, I was obsessed with the great conjurers. Not the guys that made an elephant disappear. People like Cardini...the magic, small, intimate, inches away. That's what interests me about film. It's the small moments. Not achieving larger than life status." (on Los Angeles) Every once in a while you have to go back to LA. We're miners and that's where the mine is - it's a necessary evil.