Jamie Hyneman Quotes

I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually.

Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

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.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.

It's all about the special effects.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

I'd love for my son to go, 'Hey, Mom, I'd love to have a career that is stable.' I'd be so happy. But of course, whatever makes him happy is what he's going to do.

The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

If you're not excited about the field of engineering that you have, you can't be a good engineer.

People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.

If I wasn't an engineer, I would have been a film journalist.

Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

If you look at my career, I've taken on a lot of risky roles.

I started doing visual effects for many years, and after that, I became an actor.

The most fun about working with special effects is that you have to really rely on your imagination to build the scene. You can't actually see how what you're doing will fit in ultimately and you look silly while doing it but when you see the finished product it becomes something amazing!

I didn't mention the tooth thing to anyone until it became clear that...we started to discuss just taking it out of the movie [The Hangover] because we couldn't find anything that worked and they couldn't afford to do a full like digital effect. So that's when I called my dentist and it worked out.

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.