Inside Out - Final Episode

I always feel I owe New Zealand quite a lot; my children, them growing up in a safe country and I always appreciate New Zealand, I like New Zealanders because they're really friendly people.

– Furniture restorer Leon Nodelman on his adopted country

You must never let things like that defeat you. You must face it, recognise it and live with it.

– Potter Mirek Smíšek on living with asthma and epilepsy

You can never have too many clamps.

– Grant Tilly is impressed by furniture restorer Leon Nodelman's workshop

Survival was only possible by the way you were thinking. You were ... absolutely convinced you would survive it.

– Potter Mirek Smíšek on his determination to live through a Nazi war camp

You don't want to be too accurate because it will spoil what you call the human touch.

– Smíšek on not being too pedantic when decorating his ceramics

It's very physical and it's also very good for you.

– Mirek Smíšek on enjoying the physicality of making pottery