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“Is Michael Moore an honest documentarian? Honestly? I don't think he is... The real discussion gets left behind the entertainment value.”
“'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.”
“I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.”
“My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines.”
“If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.”
“I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.”
“On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.”
“Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.”
“You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.”
“I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?”
“I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.”
“For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.”
“I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.”
“If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.”
“I love a couple of Fulci things. I just had a gas watching them. It's not what I would do, but I loved watching them. They were fun.”
“There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.”
“I saw 'Dracula,' 'Frankenstein,' 'The Wolf Man,' 'The Invisible Man.' I saw all those guys on the big screen at RKO in the Bronx. I just always loved that stuff. I loved other stuff, too. That's the thing. That wasn't all I wanted to be.”
“I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.”
“People say you're trapped in this genre. You're a horror guy. I say wait a minute - I'm able to say exactly what I think. I'm able to talk about, comment about, take snapshots of what's going on at the time. I don't feel trapped. I feel like this is my way of being able to express myself.”
“Basically, I'm an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that's high-spirited horror, and I'll be there giggling.”