I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
ADAM SAVAGEThe coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
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Bigger is always better.
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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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I think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
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