For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

When 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.

To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.

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.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

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.