I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.