It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'