My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story about something like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing?" I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea.

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. "How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?"

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.