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“I mean, we're - if I may say so - we're experts at using materials and processes in ways for which they were never intended.”
“When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.”
“Just by going fast enough, you can ride on water with a motorcycle.”
“Duct tape is like that. It's a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it's even more powerful. It's like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.”
“Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.”
“Algae are such basic, simple organisms.”
“You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.”
“I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects.”
“I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise for keeping a thought provoking show on the air. And best of all, we were able to do what we do and still have all our fingers and toes.”
“In my case, the only thing to note is if I show up at home at an unusual time, it's cause for raising my wife's blood pressure because it only happens if... usually that involves stitches.”
“We've got a great deal of respect for each other on camera as well as off, no matter what it might occasionally look like.”
“I wouldn't spend five minutes with Adam outside work if I didn't have to. But yet I feel somewhat displaced without him in the workplace... destroying my tools and leaving messes everywhere he goes.”
“I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.”
“It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.”
“If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.”
“Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.”
“Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.”
“A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.”
“A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.”
“Neither of us were experienced hosts on television. But the show seemd to moved in the direction of our characters, the way we approached things. It evolved around us and the things we think are interesting.”