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

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

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.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

You're mine, Nissa." The words were guttural, strained. She knew it. Deep inside her core the truth was there.

The brain is machine which collects data, use it to collect data. Then use that data for a purpose!

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.

I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.