I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
“I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.”
— Rick Baker · Alien
The World Motivation
I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
“I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.”
— Rick Baker · Alien
I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
We don't work for the government. We don't carry guns. We don't chase aliens. We are a man and a woman. The similarities end there... If 'X-Files' and 'Touched by an Angel' crashed on 'Highway to Heaven,' you'd have 'Mysterious Ways.'
How you frame a debate is very important. When you call someone an 'illegal alien,' you've already stacked the deck against them.
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.
The title's 'Cowboys & Aliens,' so you can get away with a lot if you chose to. You could make it the union of Cowboys Movies and Alien Movies and done whatever was convenient at any given moment. I think that's what most people would do, especially if you went broader and more comedic. Do whatever's the most fun in the moment.