Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
For the most part, magic secrets are available on a level that’s overwhelming and frightening, and they are very accessible if you do the tiniest bit of digging. But, that said, there’s a certain group of individuals, in which I am included, who are very tight about secrets and don’t share them with anyone.
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn’t refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.
The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results – unbelievable.
Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It’s magic of the mind.
I don’t like magic.
You do it for the highs, when you’re totally engrossed and everything’s flowing and whatever you want, you get. It’s like magic. That’s why you play the game. That’s what it’s for. That’s why you work.
I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It’s an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it’s so good!
I’ve always performed magic as a kid.
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
The magic doesn’t come from within the director’s mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
A lot of players will tell you, ‘When I was a kid, I watched Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron, Magic, and I wanted to be just like them.’ For me, it wasn’t like that at all.
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world – whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
Of course, in all magic tricks there’s a secret.
There was a magic about pulsars… no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away.
I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with ‘M’ for some reason.
I’m sorry, man, but I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time – and this includes naps – I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after ‘Twilight,’ and the magic just didn’t hit.
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.
Magic to me is you make a movie and it’s all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel like you’re having an experience that is positive and that you’re learning from.
I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors – between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic – and with ‘ADSOM,’ I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
In conclusion, magic reminds us of the enchantment and wonder that exists in the world. It invites us to suspend our disbelief, embrace our creativity, and see the extraordinary in the ordinary. As we reflect on these quotes, may we be inspired to embrace the magic that resides within us, to seek beauty and wonder in everyday life, and to cultivate a sense of childlike curiosity and awe. Let us unleash the power of our imagination, believe in the extraordinary, and infuse our lives with the transformative magic that surrounds us.
