I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.