My Dreams Are My Dress Rehearsals For

There Were Really A Bunch Of Old, Old Magic Hobbyists At The Time, Some Of Them Who Actually Had Known [harry] Houdini. You Had To Be 14 To Go To These Meetings, And He Snuck Me In At 12. It Was Glorious.

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.

In Movies, Storytelling And Every Single Art Form, We're Creating Wonder. You're Starting With A Blank Page And Creating Something That Doesn't Exist.

Everyone Was Talking About Having Airplanes Disappear. And I Said, "wait, Wait, Wait. That's What You Like? I'd Tell You A Story About Something Like My Girlfriend Leaving Me, And The Magic Was Really Hard. The Airplane Thing Was Comparatively Easy, And People Liked That Thing?" I Realized At That Moment, The Power Of The Simple Idea.

My Mother Was Really Loving And Wonderful And Tough As Hell.