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

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 can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?

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

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

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.

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.