“Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”

The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.

And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

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

You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’

Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.

Any time I have an Internet connection, there’s a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

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.

I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.

That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

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.

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

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.

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder

And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work.