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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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"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."
"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."
"We never repent of having eaten too little."
"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
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"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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"If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light."
"I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years."
"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 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."
"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 had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired."
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