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" 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

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Trying

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Rob Zombie

Work

Horror

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rob Zombie

Phone

Cell Phone

" It's never been about making money. "

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

Rob Zombie

Drive-In

Quality

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

" Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking. "

" I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama. "

" 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 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. "

" 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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Joke

Generation

" 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. "

" 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. "