Quotes About Magic

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!

The small things that make Christmas magical are the things children will remember. It doesn't matter what they open on Christmas morning, I don't remember what was in half the boxes I opened as a kid. What mattered were the decorations, the cookies that were mysteriously eaten, and the stockings that were filled.

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.

I still feel that the original 'Karate Kid' is the great piece of work that has stood the test of time. It's a bit of soulful magic.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.'

We need new stories, but I am looking forward to 'The Dark Crystal'.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

The Wyatt Family was a very special thing. The 3 of us came together at a perfect time. It was a perfect storm, and that rivalry with The Shield in 2014-2015 was a magical time.