Latest Rob Zombie Quotes from Interviews

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• I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.

  Rob Zombie

  Party, Zombie, Influential

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

• 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.

  Rob Zombie

  Horror, Who You Are

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

• I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in your brain. As you get older, things just bounce off. I can remember these minute details of stupid TV shows from the '70s, and I can't remember a book I read yesterday.

  Rob Zombie

  Stupid, Book, Brain

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

• I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.

  Rob Zombie

  Hate, Perfect, My Favorite

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

• 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.

  Rob Zombie

  Trying, Sometimes, Realizing

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

• I don't do anything for the money. I don't need to. I could have retired after White Zombie and been just fine. Money doesn't matter. But there is still a good living to be made, even in the niche. The funny thing is, as time goes on, the niche stuff gets bigger and bigger.

  Rob Zombie

  Zombie, Niche, Retired

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

• Reviews are all bullshit, because they always change. When House of 1000 Corpses came out, all the reviews were awful. It was impossible to find a review better than "The worst movie ever made." And now I'll see more-modern magazines, and sometimes they'll re-review things, and I'll read this great review for it. It's the same thing with White Zombie! People talk about "Oh, White Zombie, these classic records. Why don't you do them now?" Everyone hated those records when they came out! The reviews were terrible.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Bullshit, House

• There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

  Rob Zombie

  Fun, Stress, Selling

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

• Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

  Rob Zombie

  Character, Location

  Source: www.gorestruly.com

• 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.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Source: www.gorestruly.com

• I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Scared, Film

  Source: www.gorestruly.com

• If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Leave Me Alone, Directors

  Source: collider.com

• I'm definitely of the mindset of "I wouldn't want to be part of any group that would have me as a member."

  Rob Zombie

  Groups, Want, Mindset

  Source: collider.com

• People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.

  Rob Zombie

  Tv Shows, People, Albums

  Source: www.complex.com

• I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

  Rob Zombie

  Confused, Writing, Work Out

  Source: www.complex.com

• If you have a lot of money, you know that you can make almost anything happen, but with a smaller budget you don't have a lot of time or too many resources, so you have to conceive things in a very simple manner and make them happen fast.

  Rob Zombie

  Simple, Resources, Lots Of Money

  Source: www.complex.com

• The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.

  Rob Zombie

  Art, Memorable, Night

  Source: www.complex.com

• What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

  Rob Zombie

  Horror Genre, Phones, Looks

  Source: www.complex.com

• When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I'm happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out.

  Rob Zombie

  Halloween, Fighting, Years

  Source: www.complex.com

• 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.

  Rob Zombie

  Successful, Matter, Forgotten

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

  Rob Zombie

  Facts, Kind, Genre

• I think if you're going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn't executed well. There isn't anything I would like to remake. I have too many of my own ideas I want to make.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Ideas, Want

• 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".

  Rob Zombie

  Doe, Answers, Saws

• Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.

  Rob Zombie

  Trying, Answers, Care

• 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.

  Rob Zombie

  Song, Mistake, Cutting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com