For me, the most enjoyable aspect of going out and performing is that I never know how susceptible people will be to my methods. - Derren Brown

Paul [McKenna] and I have been working on making each other’s hair fall out for years now, with some success.

Since the 1920s, grand illusion on stage has been synonymous with the restraint and mutilation of female assistants, as if the first act a lucky mortal, newly endowed with the ability to overturn the laws of the universe, would wish to carry out would be the casual torture of the fairer sex for our entertainment.

The sort of ill-informed armchair moralizing that pours from the permanently outraged, Daily Mail-reading mentality is one of the more revolting and frightening aspects of our society.