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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

To stay young, accept the changes and continue to learn.

What would people think?'Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart.'Oh, ' said Grandpa.

Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

He buries gold who hides the truth.