It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

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

I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

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'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!

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