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" 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. "

Rob Zombie

Always

You

Trials

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" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like being organized and super particular. "

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" 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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