My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

Stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard, researching the comedians of the time, what touched him about it.