Rob Zombie Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I think so much about everything. I’m obsessive.

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• I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven’t crossed them over that much.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

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• As far as directors, I’m a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

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

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• You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn’t a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

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• You know… the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions’ Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don’t care.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Reason, Kids, Playing

Rob Zombie (35)

Birth:	12th January, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Musician, Producer, Screenwriter

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Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He legally changed his name to Rob Zombie in 1996.

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• 2007 - Robert C. Solomon
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• 1963 - Dick Powell