Los Angeles, 1985
“I want to make the unreal realistic.”
Screaming Mad George, interviewed by Perry C. Riddle. Read the Los Angeles Times interview.
Related: Biography
Interviews and recordings
In His Own Words
Short excerpts, not transcript dumps. Every quotation here links to the published interview it came from, or to the exact moment in the recording where he says it.
Music video work
“I did the beating heart at the beginning of Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Closer’ video.”
Screaming Mad George, interviewed by Heather Wixson. Read the published interview.
Related: “Closer”
Teaching, 2019
“正確には『スペシャル・メイクアップ・エフェクト』。”
“More accurately, it is special makeup effects.”
Screaming Mad George, explaining that the work combines effects, fabrication and makeup. Read the published Japanese interview.
Related: Professor, painter, punk again
Workshop demonstration · 08:03
“ここにチューブがありまして、このチューブから血が出ることになってます。”
“There is a tube here, and the blood will come out through this tube.”
Screaming Mad George, describing a wound appliance during a Japanese television profile. Watch the recording at 08:03.
Published interviews
These are text publications. Every excerpt above that comes from one of them was checked against the published text. The four excerpts above are the only quotations on this page, apart from the second Los Angeles Times line given in its card below.
Published interview
Remembering “Screaming Mad” George
Long-form career interview published by Heather Wixson.
Cited on: Biography · Arena · Big Trouble in Little China · Curse II: The Bite · Freaked · Elm Street 4 · Society · Spaceballs · The Guyver · “Closer”
Published interview
Reflections: “I may look like a weirdo…”
Contemporary Los Angeles Times interview. The same interview is the source of the line quoted on the home page and the memorial page: “I like the idea of doing something unreal but doing it so realistically that everyone gets nauseated.” (The Times printed “realisticly.”)
Cited on: Home · Biography · In Memoriam
Published interview
特殊メイクの第一人者・スクリーミング・マッド・ジョージ氏が大阪芸術大学の客員教授に就任
Published Japanese interview about special makeup effects and teaching at Osaka University of Arts. The translation above is the site’s own.
Cited on: Biography
Recorded interviews
Links open the source recordings. Only the Japanese television excerpt above has verified wording, speaker and timing; the remaining recordings are marked as pending review.
Verified recording · excerpt at 08:03
Screaming Mad George — Japanese TV
George demonstrates a wound appliance in the workshop. The wording, speaker and timestamp were checked against the recording.
Recording · quotation pending
Screaming “Mad” George at the JFFH 2014
A 46-minute convention interview and exhibition tour. The available captions are too unreliable to quote.
Recording · speaker review pending
Amazing art of Screaming Mad George / 特殊幻視覚展
Exhibition and talk-show footage in Japanese. The available transcript does not reliably distinguish George from the narrator and interviewer.
Recording · quotation pending
Screaming Mad George’s epic Workshop
Workshop visit and interview. No reliable transcript is currently available.
Recording · speaker review pending
Society – The Arrow Video Story
Arrow identifies George among the interviewees, but the transcript mixes speakers, narration and film dialogue without labels.
Recording archive · review pending
MAD CLUB マッドクラブ — official archive
Four official-channel uploads in Japanese still need episode identification and speaker review before they can be quoted.
Unavailable / unverified leads
These records establish that George appeared or spoke, but not wording safe to quote. They carry no quotation or timestamp claim.
Unavailable / archival lead
Midnight Kingdom from LA — program record
Nintendo’s archived profile documents George presenting the monthly NHK BS2 segment “Midnight Kingdom from LA.” No surviving episode, recording, transcript, or timestamp was located; this is not treated as a quote source.
Documentary lead · audio unverified
In Search of Darkness Part III — interviewee record
Fangoria lists George among the Part III interviewees. A third-party subtitle copy contains a timestamped candidate block, but the documentary audio was not available for an independent wording check, so no quotation is published.