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've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

Let's blow some stuff up.

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.