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.
David CopperfieldWhen people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.
David CopperfieldI discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
David CopperfieldI was 16 at the time, and I came backstage and started hanging out with them. I said, "Well, maybe you can 'vanish' the silk this way." The opening was a black stage while the "Magic to Do" song started playing. All you saw were hands, lit by Jules Fisher, and then Ben Vereen would appear beyond the hands, and at the end of the scene he would vanish a silk. The spotlight would hit a red spot on the floor where you'd see the silk on the floor. He'd pull the silk out of the floor and it became the entire set coming out of the floor.
David Copperfield