I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.
When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Time travel is such a magic concept.
In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved in the eighties by these two.
We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.
I shout at the radio when someone starts talking over the end of a song. Shut up! I don't want to hear that the DJ has just found a mouldy sandwich in the corner of the studio. Nor do I like it when the magic of something you're watching is shattered by an advert for Argos.
You don't want to disappoint, or feel like you're trying to recreate the magic of something.
For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.
Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.
That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.
I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book. The Book I Should Write should be realistic, since I studied English Lit. It should be cultural. It should reflect where I am today. The Book I Wanted to Write would probably include flying women, magic, and all of that.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.
The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to his death in 1987 at the age of sixty-three.
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
