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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. "
People
Doing
Good
" Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances. "
Every Day
Day
Months
" I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens. "
Like
Looked
Wanted
" 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?' "
You
Job
Me
" I do a lot of CG stuff for fun. "
Lot
Fun
Stuff
" I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies. "
People
Want
Hard
" I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you. "
Out
Take
You
" 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. "
Know
You
World
" I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines. "
Digital
Work
Top
" I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard. "
Hard
Feel
Myself
" I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally. "
Cheer
Someone
People
" 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. "
Good
Time
Reason
" I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can! "
Things
Love
Job
" I have always tried to stay current. "
Tried
Always
Current
" I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up. "
Making
Just
Love
" 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. "
Good
Work
Wrong
" 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. "
Know
You
Way
" I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me! "
Really
How
Find
" 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. "
Relationship
Funny
Makeup
" It's fun doing new things. "
New Things
Doing
Fun
" 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. "
Done
Me
People
" 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. "
Save
Mask
Free
" I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup. "
Good
You
Said
" I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques. "
Find
Try
Stay
" I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. "
Horror
Science
Born
" So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby. "
Make
Able
Hobby
" 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. "
Television
Up
People
" 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. "
See
Possibilities
Eyes
" 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. "
Mirror
Time
Me
" 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. "
How
Problem
Taught
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