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’m not really listed anywhere; I don’t know how people find me!
There’s a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.
I have always tried to stay current.
I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.
When you’re working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you’re doing.
The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasnt me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldnt do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.
I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.
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 enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I’ve had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
I don’t want to be doing movies that I don’t want to do. They take so much out of you.
I always wanted to make aliens that looked like ’60s aliens.
I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
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.
It’s fun doing new things.
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
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.
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.
There are so many decisions in making a movie.
Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
I’ve said this so many times but there’s a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.