In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward - well, first he called me up to tell me to clear my crap back out of his shop - and he said, "Well, that was kind of fun, wasn't it? I mean, I don't see where this could go, because we pretty much did everything. But it was fun."

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 find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.