I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.

The people living in land of deep darkness have seen a great light.

She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."

Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199

Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.