In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'
Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.
To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.
I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish men.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
Great liars are also great magicians.