In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
ADAM SAVAGEIn theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don’t start, it’s either the fuel system or the electrical system.
ADAM SAVAGEThese 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.
ADAM SAVAGEThe best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
ADAM SAVAGEI’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker.
ADAM SAVAGEAnd there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
ADAM SAVAGEThere is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
ADAM SAVAGEOne worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality.
ADAM SAVAGEI go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
ADAM SAVAGEFractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
ADAM SAVAGEWe’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.
ADAM SAVAGEWhen 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.
ADAM SAVAGEGetting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
ADAM SAVAGEIt’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.
ADAM SAVAGEBigger is always better.
ADAM SAVAGEI think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
ADAM SAVAGEWe chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.
ADAM SAVAGE