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 do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

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?

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 don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

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

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