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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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