“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.”

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

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.

We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.

I’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.

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.

My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

Then I am reminded that life will continue on, regardless of whether I choose to board the train or stay on the platform.

Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.

It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‘Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.’ That’s my message.

A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.