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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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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."

"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."

"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."

"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."

"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

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

"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."

"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."

"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."

"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
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"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 I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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