Adam Savage Quotes

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

I have to admit, at first, it was really overwhelming and I would get stressed about putting things together. Now, it's like trying to figure out a puzzle piece, and I love that...There are so many things that I don't even know and would love to discover more about. I was so upset I had to leave [Europe] before Paris Fashion Week, but then I was like..."Oh wait, my album is coming out."

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.

Music can be a source of escapism.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.