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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'

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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

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