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.

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.

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

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.

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

I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

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

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.

Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it.

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.

I like being organized and super particular.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.