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"I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity - killer. I don't get making sure you get every word right in some stupid speech just because a writer sat there and did it."
"If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing."
"I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera."
"You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim."
"My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter."
"You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by."
"'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel."
"It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away."
"Cult films last forever. I have been in plenty of films that no one will remember, so it is nice to be in some movies that some people do, and that they pass it along to the next generation I'm meeting kids named Ash now."
"Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace."
"In Hitchcock's movies you can see the storyboards and that's cool. It's nice to see a filmmaker be that prepared. Most filmmakers today have their heads up their ass, they're not nearly that prepared. He obviously had a right to say this is what I want and this is how we're doing it, because he was ready. Some filmmakers show up on the set and they don't know what they're doing. So then everyone has ideas and that makes a bad situation too. Be a director who's completely in control and yet no one knows it."
"We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people."
"If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out."
"You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building."
"Digital blood is not effective."
"I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist."
"If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall."
"Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die."
"I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all."
"You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors."