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

Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.

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

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.

When I am on the road and heading to my next venue, I think about my audience.

I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an audience filled with people who you'd think would hate each other, people from every religious category, all at the same show at the same time. And it's an amazing phenomenon to watch this shared sense of wonder, where these people who really don't like each other - for good and bad reasons, reasons that make sense and that don't make sense - are in the same room, experiencing this unification.

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