Quotes from Rob Zombie

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.

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.

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.

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

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

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.

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.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?

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.

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.

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 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.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

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 love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

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.

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.

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.