Magic Quotes

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.