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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.