When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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.
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We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
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Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It’s like Batman’s utility belt.
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!
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I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
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The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it’s really fun, and you know we’re always going to give you a satisfying ending.
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I have some ideas on how to fix that.
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My dignity and good television – they’ll never meet.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
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Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore.
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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