And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
ADAM SAVAGEIn 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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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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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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Well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren’t our audience – it’s the critical thinkers we love.
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If I haven’t had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I’ve already done on this show, this isn’t gonna hurt much more.
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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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There is no dignity in television.
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