I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

There's no director who wants to portray cheese puffs with a certain color that's going to make or break the commercial, in his opinion. We don't have to do that, so I don't miss it at all, really.

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

If it turns out that we're doing proper science from time to time, it just happens to be that that's the most efficient way of doing it. We go into each of these stories with an open mind, and one of the great things about how the show works is that we're not approaching it from a doctoral point of view, we're just trying to see what happens.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.