I don't have some cliché story of how I was born with a camera in my hands or how I spent my entire childhood filming... In fact, as a kid, I never touched a camera. I grew up pulling rabbits out of hats and making coins disappear. I was fascinated with the world of magic. I loved watching friends and family freak out as the card they chose at random magically disappeared from the deck and landed in their pocket or stuck to a window, and seeing in their eyes even for a split second the belief that I had performed some supernatural phenomenon.

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Although performing magic tricks never stuck with me as I grew older, that feeling of "wowing" others always stayed. It just took a new form in film.