“Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.”

How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one.

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

You wake up and the world says, ‘Oops, it’s too much fun to go to school, you’ve got to stay home and deal with the snow!’

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.

One’s life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d’you know, it’s most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

A good journalist’s first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact – but sometimes its very hard to do that.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn’t happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

Sometimes you work with somebody you’ve never heard of because you just feel like working.

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.