“Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies”

I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.

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.

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions – economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate

I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

I adore dark chocolate.