I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, "It's my way or the highway." I got to watch that. He lambasted me, "You cannot do this. You will fail." Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible.

[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my parents said, "Okay, I guess you can quit Fordham." Of course, when that show closed, as you can imagine, I came to New York and starved for years, but it's never an easy road.

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.