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We All Possess The Need To Dream.

I Think The Negative Reinforcement Really Helped Me In My Very Beginnings.

There Was A Place In New York Called Tannen's Magic. It Still Exists. But Back In The Day, It Was Really Fantastic. You'd Go Into The Old Wurlitzer Building, Take The Elevator To The 13th Floor, Which Was Labeled 14, Because Of Bad Luck, The Elevator Would Open, And You'd Be In Heaven. It Was All Of These Guys Doing Magic Stuff With Props. It's Kind Of Gone Now, That Experience, The Brick-and-mortar Magic Shop, But You Really Felt Like You'd Landed In The Most Amazing Place In The World.

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.

All My Tv Shows Are Done Live In Front Of Audiences, And All The Material I Take On The Road And Travel With Them Test Them For Hundreds And Hundreds Of Shows Before I Shoot Them For Tv.