Rick Baker Quotes

It's fun doing new things.

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

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

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'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.

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

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

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 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.