Rick Baker Quotes
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I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
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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.
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I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
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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.
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When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
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Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances.
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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.
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I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.
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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.
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When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
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It's fun doing new things.
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When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.
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I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
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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.
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I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
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I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.
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I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
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I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.
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I have always tried to stay current.
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CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.