Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

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.

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

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

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.