Quotes

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

There is no dignity in television.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

Let's blow some stuff up.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

Isn't television glamourous?

Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So therein you have the dichotomy of our patterns.

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.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So 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.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.