Rob Zombie Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.

I could care less what people think.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

There's always the trick with anything what's a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?

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

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.

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

I like being organized and super particular.

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.

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

[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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

It's never been about making money.

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.

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

I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.

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

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".

I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.