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.
ADAM SAVAGEI’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see what we’re doing, and they consistently thank us.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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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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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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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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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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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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Whether it’s in a phrase like “going over like a lead balloon” or “a needle in a haystack,” or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond
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Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
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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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