David Copperfield

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'