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
ADAM SAVAGEYou 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
ADAM SAVAGEThere’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
ADAM SAVAGENearly every one of these – from R2D2 to Hellboy’s revolver – ends with the paint job. And it’s not just cosmetic.
ADAM SAVAGEWell, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop – and he said, “
ADAM SAVAGESo 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.
ADAM SAVAGEI think at this point, there’s a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can’t ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we’re quite aware of.
ADAM SAVAGEYou give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
ADAM SAVAGEThis is the point in the show where we say, ‘Oh, what else do we have in the van that’s flammable?’
ADAM SAVAGEBack when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
ADAM SAVAGEThere are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
ADAM SAVAGEIn addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head
ADAM SAVAGEJamie’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.
ADAM SAVAGEForever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
ADAM SAVAGEThe coolest toys don’t have to be bought; they can be built.
ADAM SAVAGEI had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
ADAM SAVAGELet’s blow some stuff up.
ADAM SAVAGE