I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
ADAM SAVAGEGrowing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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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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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.
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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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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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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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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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Bigger is always better.
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