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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 feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!

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 always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

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 enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

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.

There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

I have always tried to stay current.

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.

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.

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'

I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.