193 Quotes by Rob Zombie

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.

I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it’s supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

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.

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.

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.

In the US everybody is about what’s new and what’s next and they don’t really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe – if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.

The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything’s accessible, so you can get it, but when everything’s accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you’re not interested, you don’t.

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, “We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song.” You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don’t believe it exists.