Rick Baker Quotes

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.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

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

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.

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

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

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.

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.

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

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.

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.

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.

There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

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

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

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

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

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.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

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