I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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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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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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And I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
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we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I
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The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.
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The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
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That’s a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.
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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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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.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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The coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
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The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it’s been, what it’s been used for, and for how long.
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This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
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In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
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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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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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Well, that was kind of fun, wasn’t it? I mean, I don’t see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun.”
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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Isn’t television glamourous?
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