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.

I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.