I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’ – especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life. I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.
I’ve always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there’s a little bit of truth to it.
Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
I wouldn’t say jamie is an evil genius. I’m not sure he’s evil and I’m not sure he’s a genius.
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 go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
There’s few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.
Jamie’s gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I’m more optimistic than pessimistic.
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.