193 Quotes by Rob Zombie

There’s always the trick with anything what’s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?

Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil’s hole.

You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you’re creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.

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.

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

On the first feature, everything’s new. No matter what you’re doing, it’s a new experience, and you don’t really have control over it, in a way, because you just don’t know how things work.

The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it’s been shot at night with a security camera.

I’m psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That’s just the way I’ve been about everything my whole life.

No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it’s forgotten quickly after and it’s the original that still lives on.