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I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.
It's never been about making money.
I could care less what people think.
I like being organized and super particular.
I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.
I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.
To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.
Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil's hole.
Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.
Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?
All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.
My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.
I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.
I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.
I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.
I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.
I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.
I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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.
Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.
I'm definitely of the mindset of "I wouldn't want to be part of any group that would have me as a member."
I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.
The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.
But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.
I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.
Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.
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?
[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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.
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 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.
Horror movies are always a solid dollar. But a movie about Groucho Marx is a gamble. These things just are. Doesn't matter who you are.
I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.