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Tobe Hooper

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

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

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"The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate."
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"I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired."
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"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."
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"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."
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"No matter where you're going it's the wrong place."
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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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