Rob Zombie famous quotes

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Kids #Thinking #White

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Thinking #Creating #Decision

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

#Song #Hurt #Kids

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

#Two #People #Littles

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Black #Firsts #Faster

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Firsts #Matter #Way

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

#Hurt #Thinking #Names

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Personality #Different #Producers

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

#Goal #Film #Makers

[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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Writing #Scripts #Mainstream

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

#Glowing #Might #Generations

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

#Thinking #Sick #People

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

#Growing Up #Years #Lists

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

#Fans #Remakes #Bigs

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.
-- Rob Zombie

#Thinking #Entertainment #Escapists

People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, it [horror movie] just seems a little ridiculous.
-- Rob Zombie

#War #Games #People

I like being organized and super particular.
-- Rob Zombie

#Organized #Particular

I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.
-- Rob Zombie

#Real #Real Life #Enough

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
-- Rob Zombie

#Lazy #Cold #Hungry

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

#Trying #Way #Next

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

#Moving #Bored #Looks

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.
-- Rob Zombie

#Way #Tiny #Littles

It's never been about making money.
-- Rob Zombie

#Money #Making Money

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

#People #Culture #Might

I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a release date and so you're stuck to that schedule. But sometimes you're still editing and you feel like you're not really done, but they're sort of releasing the movie anyway - that's kind of depressing.
-- Rob Zombie

#Depressing #Editing #Locks

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Loyalty #Real #Europe

I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.
-- Rob Zombie

#Art #Growing Up #Kids

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 ***** because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
-- Rob Zombie

#Names #People #Credit

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Growing Up #Hate #School

Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.
-- Rob Zombie

#People #Trying #Cost

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

#Real #Book #Tvs

I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.
-- Rob Zombie

#Confusing #Littles #Patient

Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.
-- Rob Zombie

#Couple #Singing #Band

I don't really have a fear of doctors, in the sense that they're going to do something bad to me. I don't have a fear of them eating me, or a fear of needles, or anything like that. I have a fear that I'm feeling completely fine, everything's good, and then when I go there, he's going to tell me something horrible.
-- Rob Zombie

#Doctors #Feelings #Eating

Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.
-- Rob Zombie

#Hurt #Growing Up #Believe

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

#Judging #People #Stuff

I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.
-- Rob Zombie

#Sometimes #Worst #Frustrating

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#People #Taste #Program

The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything's accessible, so you can get it, but when everything's accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you're not interested, you don't.
-- Rob Zombie

#Mean #Kids #Disappear

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Work Out #People #Want

I'm not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I'm being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don't want to hear it.
-- Rob Zombie

#Thinking #Political #Taught

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#People #Done #Fixing Things

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.
-- Rob Zombie

#Firsts #Next #Exciting

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Time #Art #Done

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
-- Rob Zombie

#Remember #Shots #Blur

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

#Running #Mean #Kissing

Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.
-- Rob Zombie

#People #Black #Done

I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.
-- 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

#New York #Jobs #Thinking

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

#Likes #Sometimes

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Want #Way #World

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

#Actors #Fantastic #Josh

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
-- Rob Zombie

#People #Want #Serious

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
-- Rob Zombie

#Quality #Wanted

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
-- Rob Zombie

#Fun #School #Watches

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
-- Rob Zombie

#Kids #Hockey #Boston

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
-- Rob Zombie

#Expectations #People #Like You

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

#Years #Watches #Admire

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.
-- Rob Zombie

#Thinking #Obsessive

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.
-- Rob Zombie

#Wayne #Frank

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

#Stars #Successful #Winning

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Average #Massachusetts #Trials

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

#Forever #Band #Classic

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
-- Rob Zombie

#Doe #Stuff #Directors

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
-- Rob Zombie

#Made

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

#Drama #Kind #Crime

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Movie Love #Want #Horror

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

#Fascination #Witch #Wells

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

#Attitude #Thinking #Band

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Thinking #Flying #Wizards

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

#Moving #Two #People

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

#Sometimes #Projects

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

#Running #Song #Rap

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

#Spiritual #Believe #Fate

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?
-- Rob Zombie

#Irresistible #Creatures #Insatiable

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.
-- Rob Zombie

#Comedy #Horror

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

#Views #People #Trying

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

#Caring #Funny Things #People

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey
-- Rob Zombie

#Kings #Hockey #Games

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,
-- Rob Zombie

#Animal #People #Needs

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.
-- Rob Zombie

#Lions #Care #Hey