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No matter where you're going it's the wrong place
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
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No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.
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Wrong Place
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You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Film
Needs
Rating
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You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Rating
Advertise
Shown
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I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Long
Speech
Tired
Developed
Impediment
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The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.
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I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.
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Return
Happening
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The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
All Kinds
Influence
Kind
Watergate
Influences
Socially
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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
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Different
Firsts
Light
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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.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Chainsaw
Nightmare
Different Kind
Sees
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You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Glasses
Spiders
Window
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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.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Children
Creating
Moving
Piano
Onto
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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.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Believe
Graphic
Halloween
Mind
Allow
Blanks
Fill
Minds
Suggestive
Viewer
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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.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Delayed
Direct
London
Origin Of Life
Return
Stories
Living
Attached
Original
Dead
Production
Meantime
Story
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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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Pieces
Thinking
Tone
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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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Chainsaw
Companion
Tone
Captures
Remake
Piece
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The kids are really smart. They are sharp and they're not yet bent over by the system. I think there's a wonderful intelligence in today's youth, and it's a part of growing up.
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Kids
Growing Up
Smart
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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
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Law
Stars
Taken
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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.
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Making Money
Showcase
Stars
Tomorrow
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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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Baby
Mother
Names
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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.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Died
Funeral
Pasadena
Coffin
Mention
Monster
Whose
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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.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Disappear
Mean
People
Years
People Know Something
Each Year
La
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Vanish
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I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.
Tobe Hooper / Film Director
Couple
Nice
Years
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