33 Quotes by Tobe Hooper

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    I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

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    I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

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    I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece

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    Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow

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    The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

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    I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

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    You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

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    No matter where you’re going it’s the wrong place.

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