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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. "

Rob Zombie

Kings

Game

Hockey

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" Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it. "

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

" I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky. "

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

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Work

Horror

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Strange

Attitude

" 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. "

" By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee. "

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

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

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Great

Once

" 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. "

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

" Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid. "

" Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy. "

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

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Expectations

You

" 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. "

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

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Drive-In

Quality

" 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'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world. "

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

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Classic

Forever

" I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun. "

" I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on. "

" Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. "

" I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later. "

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Movies

Years

" 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. "

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Phone

Cell Phone

" I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive. "

" I like being organized and super particular. "

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Super

Organized