Inventor Quotes

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

I have always tried to stay current.

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

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

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

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.

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

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

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 always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

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.

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.

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

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

You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

I also served on many government committees.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.