Tobe Hooper Quotes

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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…
• The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
• 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…
• No matter where you're going it's the wrong place
• 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…
• If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light
• 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-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut.
• 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…
• I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

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