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.
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
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.
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've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
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.
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.
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.
The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.
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 have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.
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.
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
