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" Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time. "

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" I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey. "

" I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever. "

" I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie. "

" I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes. "

" NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice. "

" Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed. "

" Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff. "

" I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out. "

" I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much. "

" The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name. "

" I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies. "

" When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view. "

" There are so many projects that don't happen, just sometimes they don't get announced, so no one ever knows about them and you don't have to talk about them. "

" White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it. "

" You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care. "

" The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'? "

" Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. "

" To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway. "

" When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film. "

" All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually. "

" Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor. "

" My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal. "

" I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script. "

" The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't. "

" I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad. "

" I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen. "

" But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange. "

" My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery. "

" As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does. "