I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
ADAM SAVAGEThat 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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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians.
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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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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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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Don’t work for fools. It’s not worth it.
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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.
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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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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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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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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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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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