Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

I'm a little suspicious of using microwaves.

Over the years, we've developed a respect for each other in the roles that we play and we rely on that difference to recreate clarity for the audience.

We've got a great deal of respect for each other on camera as well as off, no matter what it might occasionally look like.

I really didn't think this was going to be a success. We did the first three episodes and I said to Adam, 'I can't see this going anywhere. I've already used up all my urban legends.'

Is there some situation where square wheels would be better than round wheels? Sure! A round wheel has a pressure point directly under the tire. A square wheel's corners are going to bite and propel you forward. The square wheel could be superior on snow or mud or sand.

I'm like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.

We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.

There are times when we're testing an actual explosion, and then there are times when we blow stuff up just because we can.

You know, dealing with effects, as a job it's great, but with 'Mythbusters,' the stuff we've seen, the stuff we've absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

Duct tape is like that. It's a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it's even more powerful. It's like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.

I work out regularly because I don't see the mind and body as that separate.

I've ended up water skiing behind the Stanford rowing team as well as water skiing behind an excavator while it swung around in a circle.

There are things that you would think were not possible, and yet they are.

I think 'MythBusters' is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.

In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

Well, one of the myths early on that I think is one of the funnier things we've done is airline toilet seats. That one was about a large woman that sat down on a seat in an airline and flushed the toilet and got stuck on it.

We've done a zombie episode - only one - and the way we look at it as is we understand that there probably aren't zombies out there for real, but there's a lot of interesting stuff we can test about them. We've tested how bodies of zombies pressing against a gate, would they push it through and things like that.

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

I have to say that we're not actors, at least on 'Mythbusters' or any of the other television projects that we've done.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

One of the main reasons for success on the show is that we're not a demonstration show. We're an experimentation show.

If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something a little different than people usually think.

Occasionally, you know, a myth is specific with a certain model of car, you know, like a Corvette or whatever. And so we end up spending some cash on those.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical.

We're fond of pointing out that we've known each other for over 25 years now and not once sat down alone to have dinner together. We pretty much avoid spending whatever time together that we can.

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

Both Adam and I come from a practical effects background.

Miles Flannery - he's a beast. Very talented, but a brute. He's one of three guys who help us keep the shop maintained, help us set up on location and assist in building something if time is short.

I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.

I never dreamed we would be on television at all, much less for such a long time and with so much praise for keeping a thought provoking show on the air. And best of all, we were able to do what we do and still have all our fingers and toes.

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

We seriously irritate each other and don't want to spend any time together. And yet we have a profound respect for the partnership. We're like a couple of dogs with a rag.

Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

I'm not a sociable person. I don't like to talk.

I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.

I pretty much just use my smartphone for phone calls.

Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.

When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.

Terry Gilliam has directed some of the best examples of what I like to see in a film - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'