The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

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.

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.

If you don't have an ego, you're a wino.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

The trouble with 'a place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places.