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

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.

Laugh every day for five minutes, without any reason, then repeat it for 21 days straight and it will become your habit to do.

If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

You fight like you train.

My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.