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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.
Rick Baker
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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.
Rick Baker
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When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
Rick Baker
4.
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?
Rick Baker
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I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
Rick Baker
6.
I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
Rick Baker
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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.
Rick Baker
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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.
Rick Baker
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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.
Rick Baker
10.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
Rick Baker
11.
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
Rick Baker
12.
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.
Rick Baker
13.
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 to do things I couldnt do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.
Rick Baker
14.
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.
Rick Baker
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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.
Rick Baker
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There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.
Rick Baker
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When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.
Rick Baker
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I have always tried to stay current.
Rick Baker
19.
I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.
Rick Baker
20.
I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.
Rick Baker
21.
When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
Rick Baker
22.
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.
Rick Baker
23.
I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.
Rick Baker
24.
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
Rick Baker
25.
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
Rick Baker
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It's fun doing new things.
Rick Baker
27.
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.
Rick Baker
28.
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.
Rick Baker
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I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.
Rick Baker
30.
Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
Rick Baker
31.
I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
Rick Baker
32.
There are so many decisions in making a movie.
Rick Baker
33.
I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!
Rick Baker
34.
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.
Rick Baker
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I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
Rick Baker