Failure is always an option.
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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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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That was excellent! I mean, it didn’t do anything, but it looked really cool!
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You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.
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Firemen have the coolest toys ever!
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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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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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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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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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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It’s about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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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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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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There is no dignity in television.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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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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