Let Sleeping Dogs Lie — Who Wants

To Make Magic Credible On Screen Is Always Very Difficult. The Story Is The Most Important Thing. That Is What Should Win. If Sacrifices Or Compromises Are Made, It's Usually For Story. Story In Magic Is Very, Very Important To Me. That's What I've Really Championed Through My Career.

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.

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

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 Is Used In Espionage, All The Time, For Clandestine Things. I've Got A Whole Library From A Gentleman Who Was Hired By The Cia To Create Magic Technology For The Use Of Anti-terrorism.