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.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

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!'