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

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic."

Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.