Rob Zombie Quotes

“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.”

— Rob Zombie

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

— 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.”

— Rob Zombie

“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.”

— Rob Zombie

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

“It's never been about making money.”

— 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.

— Rob Zombie

“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.”

— Rob Zombie

“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

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

— Rob Zombie

“My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.”

— Rob Zombie

“I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script.”

— Rob Zombie

“NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.”

— Rob Zombie

“To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.”

— Rob Zombie

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

— Rob Zombie

“I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.”

— Rob Zombie

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

— Rob Zombie

“I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.”

— Rob Zombie

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

— Rob Zombie

“Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.”

— Rob Zombie

“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.”

— Rob Zombie

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

— Rob Zombie

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

— Rob Zombie

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

— Rob Zombie

“Sometimes I feel like people don't even know how to react in some situations because of online culture. Since many things are online, you might not react to something that is happening live.”

— Rob Zombie

“It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.”

— Rob Zombie

“I'm sick of remakes, how about something different. That's the thing - people always come to me and are like 'what do you want to remake, we know we can get that greenlight, what do you want to make?' I don't want to remake a g-d damn focking think.”

— Rob Zombie

“I try to stay friends with everybody because you might go back and work with somebody who you had a horrible experience with and it could be great the next time. You never know which way it's going to go, never say never.”

— Rob Zombie

“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.”

— Rob Zombie

“Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil's hole.”

— Rob Zombie

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

— Rob Zombie

“I've always loved Alice Cooper.”

— Rob Zombie

“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.”

— Rob Zombie

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

— Rob Zombie

“Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".”

— Rob Zombie

“I think if you're going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn't executed well. There isn't anything I would like to remake. I have too many of my own ideas I want to make.”

— Rob Zombie

“No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.”

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“When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I'm happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out.”

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What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

— Rob Zombie

“People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.”

— Rob Zombie

“I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?”

— Rob Zombie

“I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.”

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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.

— Rob Zombie

“I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes that happens in certain types of horror movies. I was never a fan of that, I wasn't looking for 'inventive' kills and I even hate that word because it's like, if you have these characters screaming or crying in pain I don't think anyone should be jumping out of their seat cheering. It should be horrible and you should feel sick watching it because that's what it is, sick.”

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

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“There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.”

— Rob Zombie

“I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.”

— Rob Zombie

“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.”

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I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.

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“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.”

— Rob Zombie