Larry: For the sake of your viewers who can’t see this, I’m showing you I always have a flashlight in my pocket. That’s what I walk around with. A good prop person always has a a flashlight, and it’s there so that you can shine it down the barrel and check for that. If you don’t have a flashlight, don’t go on set. And so that’s yet another step along this horrible chain of events that leads to these incidences. And I do want to point something out. You said it once or twice, Liz, but you notice I have not once used the word accident.
Lizzie: Yeah.
Larry: Right? Because an accident implies that there’s nobody to blame. Oh, it was an accident. It was an act of God. No. The Crow and all these other high-profile things There’s people to blame. There’s enough blame to go around. If you don’t do your job correctly and it leads to an injury or a fatality, you’re to blame. It’s not an accident. An accident is when you do everything you can possibly do to prevent it and something still goes wrong. That’s an accident. These are not accidents. You know what I mean?
Emphasis mine.
From Larry Zanoff, an armorer who works on films. He’s talking about the role of an armorer and their importance in keeping everyone safe on set.
From What Went Wrong, a podcast about movies, and how it’s nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one.