When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects...

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you hear a director yelling on set, everybody scatters in the other direction.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

I really had the right nose for making the right decisions, in terms of which projects to do and which projects to stay away from. The people that I ended up becoming very close to in my career are the guys who inspire me.