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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.

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

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    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?

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    It's fun doing new things.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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