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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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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."
"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
"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."
"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."
"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."
"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
"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."
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"I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired."
"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 don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years."
"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 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."
"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."
"If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of 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."
"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."
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