“That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.”

Bigger is always better.

After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.

Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond

Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

There is no dignity in television.

There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.

It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

I can’t do modeling disconnected. And I thought, “What do I like? What do I love about modeling?”

We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it’s the most beautiful country in the world.

In winter, some voices are like coats.

You know, I’ve been thinking: all the women in the books you like — Sartre and Camus and all that — they don’t really exist. Not as people.

Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,

I just want to do whatever makes me happy…Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun…being a bit daft.