Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.
From Teller
People take reality for granted.
Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
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