It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

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."

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

In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

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

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!