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.
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.
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.
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.
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 love making scary faces, that’s just how I grew up.
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 used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it’s how I spent all my free time.
I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
I’m not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don’t know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.
It’s funny: I’ve been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don’t really have an agent – I don’t really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.