Rick Baker Quotes

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• I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
• So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
• I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
• 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…
• The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasnt me looking back. It allowed me…
• I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.
• 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…
• I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
• I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
• 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…
• I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
• 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…
• I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.
• I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.
• I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
• I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.
• I have always tried to stay current.
• I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.
• 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…
• 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…

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