Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You’re either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
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 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.
Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?
You can’t make everyone happy right away, you can’t figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.
I really just do what I like. I don’t understand what the general public likes sometimes.
Sometimes, you just have to realize, I’m not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out in a mainstream way is almost psychotic.
All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like ‘you want to do this again’?
When I watch a movie, I don’t make a sound or move. The more I’m into the movie, the more bored I look. Rob Zombie
I don’t do anything for the money. I don’t need to. I could have retired after White Zombie and been just fine. Money doesn’t matter. But there is still a good living to be made, even in the niche. The funny thing is, as time goes on, the niche stuff gets bigger and bigger.
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.
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.
Every time I start the next movie, it’s as exciting as the first time. Rob Zombie
I don’t believe in fate, because I’m not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.
“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.”
I really just do what I like. I don’t understand what the general public likes sometimes.
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. Rob Zombie
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. Rob Zombie
Once you feel like you’re being dictated by other people’s expectations, it usually backfires.
I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love. Rob Zombie
“I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn’t hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn’t affect anyone – come on.”
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.
My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that’s always my goal.
The only thing I ever really care about is animals – animal causes. I don’t really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.
The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It’s not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it’s the indie bands that don’t have two cents to their name. Rob Zombie
“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.”
“Sometimes things just aren’t of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.”
A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It’s a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.
Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he’s fantastic. I worked with him once; he’s a really great actor.
Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed
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.
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. Rob Zombie
“The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it’s not like it’s all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer’s personality is different. You never know what you’re going to do.”
I could care less what people think.
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. Rob Zombie
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.
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.
The funny thing is, I’m so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things… I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn’t.
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