Rob Zombie Quotes
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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.
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I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
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I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.
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One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don't want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it's a twist ending.
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Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.
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People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.
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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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There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.
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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.
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I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.
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I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.
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As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
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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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I don't really have a fear of doctors, in the sense that they're going to do something bad to me. I don't have a fear of them eating me, or a fear of needles, or anything like that. I have a fear that I'm feeling completely fine, everything's good, and then when I go there, he's going to tell me something horrible.
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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 just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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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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Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".
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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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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.