Rick Baker
Rick Baker
Richard A. "Rick" Baker is an American special make-up effects creator known for his creature effects. Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup a record seven times from a record eleven nominations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMakeup Artist
Date of Birth8 December 1950
CountryUnited States of America
awful way different
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.
makeup limits i-can
There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.
people find-me knows
I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!
jobs successful people
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.
cheer people kind
I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
teenager doe different
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.
want
I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.
currents
I have always tried to stay current.
film feels hard
I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.
digital sculpture magazines
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
aliens wanted
I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
makeup people want
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.
thinking people tools
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.
trying technique modern
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.