I'm A Horrible Karaoke Singer.

Magic Is The Only Profession Where It's Easy To Lie About Your Talent. If You Do A Trick And You Can Learn It Very Quickly, You Can Fool Somebody Into Thinking You're A Great Magician.

I Got To Watch Frank Capra, In His Eighties, In Action. You Read All The Stories About Frank Capra Fighting With The Head Of Columbia, Harry Cohn, "it's My Way Or The Highway." I Got To Watch That. He Lambasted Me, "you Cannot Do This. You Will Fail." Finally, After Another Hour Of Conversation, I Convinced Him To Help Me Write The Speech.

I Have Always Been Interested In Pushing Magic Forward.

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.

Magic And New Technology Have Always Walked Hand In Hand - Even Back In The Days Of Robert Houdin.