I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.
CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.
The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.
So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!
I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.
There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances.
I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
I have always tried to stay current.
Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.
It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.
