“I have some ideas on how to fix that.”

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

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.

We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.

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.

I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.

I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.

Bigger is always better.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

I’ve still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

The Booker triumph of Graham Swift’s moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.