Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
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My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.
When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
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