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My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

I enjoy life so much I don't want it to end, and dying does worry me. If you've got faith, you believe that you're going to go to a magic land, but unfortunately, I don't have faith.

When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to me - a little taste of magic to it. You have this idea that there are millions, literally, of people listening to it at the same time as you and that little strange telepathy of a feeling that you're sharing something live with all those people.

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

Magic really helped me.

Magic is my paint.

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.