I’m doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic. Michael Carbonaro Read Quote
I’ll order anything that has the word ‘fig’ or ‘crusted’ in the menu description. Michael Carbonaro Read Quote
David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator’s experience. That’s really what magic is all about. Michael Carbonaro Read Quote
I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things. Michael Carbonaro Read Quote
The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn’t think it’s a magic trick but is something amazing they haven’t seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality. Michael Carbonaro Read Quote
There’s magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it’s happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny. Michael Carbonaro Read Quote