Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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There is no dignity in television.
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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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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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility
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I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
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We’re always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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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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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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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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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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It’s a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.
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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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it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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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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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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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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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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