Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
ADAM SAVAGESometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
ADAM SAVAGEThe ‘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.
ADAM SAVAGEAudiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences.
ADAM SAVAGEFractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
ADAM SAVAGEWe’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
ADAM SAVAGEIn the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward
ADAM SAVAGEI like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it.
ADAM SAVAGEMy dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
ADAM SAVAGESo my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
ADAM SAVAGEMostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
ADAM SAVAGELet’s blow some stuff up.
ADAM SAVAGEStand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
ADAM SAVAGEit 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.
ADAM SAVAGEIsn’t television glamourous?
ADAM SAVAGEThe main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.
ADAM SAVAGEI 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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