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
people enjoy
When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
fun stuff
I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.
powerful mean reflection
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.
fiction tvs horror
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
dream able hobbies
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
rubber mask used
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.
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.