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" To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway. "
Rob Zombie
Work
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Me
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" It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17. "
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Easy
Edge
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" 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. "
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Advertising
Death
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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World
Way
" You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!. "
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Generation
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" 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. "
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You
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" 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. "
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Growing Up
Failure
Drive
" As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does. "
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Fan
Big
" I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad. "
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Though
Bad
Entertainment
" 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. "
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Always
You
Trials
" The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'? "
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You
Serious
People
" When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look. "
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Look
Watch
" 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. "
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Say
Gate
Done
" It's never been about making money. "
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Making
Never
Money
" 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. "
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You
Trying
Film
" Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time. "
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First
Start
First Time
" 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
" 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. "
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Weird
Think
Remember
" 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. "
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Kid
Understand
True
" I like being organized and super particular. "
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Super
Organized
Like
" 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. "
Rob Zombie
High School
Fun
Remember
" 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. "
Rob Zombie
People
Point
Trying
" 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. "
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Never
Seen
You
" 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. "
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Winning
Great
Love
" I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive. "
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Everything
About
Think
" I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird. "
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Well
Everything
Witches
" All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually. "
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Classic
Up
Forever
" 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. "
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Cool
Rock
Think
" 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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More
Phone
Cell Phone
" 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. "
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You
Happen
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