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

Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.

My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. "Live the impossible!"

There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization.

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.