When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

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

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.

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

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

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.

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.