The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
ADAM SAVAGEI think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.
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Nearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
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This is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
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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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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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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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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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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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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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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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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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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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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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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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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
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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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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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