Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
ADAM SAVAGEWhether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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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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Jamie’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.
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Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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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.
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And also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
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If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting.
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That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.
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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!’
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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
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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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