"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."

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"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."

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"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."

Film, Spirit

"I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years."

Internet, Living, Years

"Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out."

People, States

"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."

Living, London, Production

"No matter where you're going it's the wrong place."

Wrong,

"I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin."

Family, Mother, People, Idea, Baby

"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."

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

Life,

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

Perspective, First, Light

"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."

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"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

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"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

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