Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
ADAM SAVAGEI’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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The car is effectively a black box.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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