Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.
— Jamie Hyneman
The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.
We are seeing robotics creep into all areas and become accessible, where it used to be something tedious that only the most persistent people could access.
I am pretty much who I seem, and it's not a television host.
An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.
We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.
There are a couple of scenes in David Lynch's 'Dune' that I loved - again, small things but inspired and elegantly done.
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.
I pretty much just use my smartphone for phone calls.
The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.
You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.
We seriously irritate each other and don't want to spend any time together. And yet we have a profound respect for the partnership. We're like a couple of dogs with a rag.
It's fun to use your brain.
A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.
Miles Flannery - he's a beast. Very talented, but a brute. He's one of three guys who help us keep the shop maintained, help us set up on location and assist in building something if time is short.
When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.
We're not friends - in fact, we pretty much as a rule irritate each other. But we've learnt to embrace it and use it as a strength... the other guy's always seeing something from the opposite pole.
Adam and I don't consider ourselves friends. We don't spend any time together that we don't have to.
I think anybody who's curious about anything, including their own mind, is inherently a skeptic.
Over time, shop classes sort of disappeared or got marginalized in the states. I don't really know why. Now with tech like 3-D printers and CNCs, shops have acquired a new shine.
I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.
I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.
If you ever decide to build a boat out of wet newspaper, it's important to remember to lay down the sheets like shingles on a house: One issue at a time, starting at the bow and moving aft, so water flows over the layers, not under them.
I love Tim Curry as the Devil in 'Legend;' the prosthetics that are on him are so over the top sensually evil, and Tim takes full advantage, is just oozing with the role. The makeup and prosthetics, and his character are seamless.
On occasion, we at 'MythBusters' come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology.
I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.
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.
Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.
Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.
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.
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.
Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.
As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.
My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn't like baseball caps so I got a beret.
There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.
I'm excited about all technology.
When I was in school, shop class was where the kids that weren't good in anything to do with books went.
I was a problematic kid, to be sure.
We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.
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.
Terry Gilliam has directed some of the best examples of what I like to see in a film - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'
Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.
We're these guys that are very tech-savvy, so people tend to expect us to say our favorite gadgets are thing like the latest iPhone or the latest app or something like that. Adam is pretty much like that. As far as myself, I'm the kind of guy that tends to go for the absolute simplest things.
I'm not a sociable person. I don't like to talk.
If I had one word to describe how I feel at never having to work with co-host Adam Savage again it'd be relief.
We couldn't be happier that the show has encouraged kids to have an interest in science and math, but we don't try to do that. We just have fun, which is its own bold statement.
If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.
I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.
Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.
We're fond of pointing out that we've known each other for over 25 years now and not once sat down alone to have dinner together. We pretty much avoid spending whatever time together that we can.
