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!
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.
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.