For me, I was watching Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Victor Fleming movies, and I said, "I want to tell stories like that. I want to move people like that. But I'm good at magic, so what am I going to do?" So I started using magic for the right reasons - to get the girl.

I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

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

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."