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 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.

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

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate.

And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.