You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
ADAM SAVAGEIt’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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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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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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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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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 go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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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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There is no dignity in television.
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The ‘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.
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Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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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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The car is effectively a black box.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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“I agree your results aren’t always right,” they’ll say, “but your methods are clearly showing that science is a re-creative process, and it’s an interesting process because it’s messy, and no other shows show that.”
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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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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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