Top 90 Rob Zombie Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.”

— Rob Zombie

2. “You can’t make everyone happy right away, you can’t figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.”

— Rob Zombie

3. “When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it’s kind of just like your gut that tells you, “You’re done, walk away” because you can always keep fixing it.”

— Rob Zombie

4. “Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You’re either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.”

— Rob Zombie

5. “I don’t want to just make horror movies; I don’t want to just make any type of movie – I don’t just like horror movies, I love movies.”

— Rob Zombie

6. “I really just do what I like. I don’t understand what the general public likes sometimes.”

— Rob Zombie

7. “When you can program your own life, you’re just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people’s taste becomes much more narrow-minded.”

— Rob Zombie

8. “The funny thing is, I’m so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn’t.”

— Rob Zombie

9. “Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you’re going to have years of failure.”

— Rob Zombie

10. “I don’t like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.”

— Rob Zombie

11. “Once you feel like you’re being dictated by other people’s expectations, it usually backfires.”

— Rob Zombie

12. “I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.”

— Rob Zombie

13. “My advice: Don’t quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn’t give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.”

— Rob Zombie

14. “If there is one thing that, as a director, you don’t want to be a part of, it’s a group. It’s the same thing with music. I don’t want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It’s just my nature, and it’s nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.”

— Rob Zombie

15. “You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you’re creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.”

— Rob Zombie

16. “I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that’s why I like things that are more extreme.”

— Rob Zombie

17. “The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything’s accessible, so you can get it, but when everything’s accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you’re not interested, you don’t.”

— Rob Zombie

18. “I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.”

— Rob Zombie

19. “Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don’t believe it exists.”

— Rob Zombie

20. “Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?”

— Rob Zombie

21. “I’m not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I’m being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don’t want to hear it.”

— Rob Zombie

22. “I could care less what people think.”

— Rob Zombie

23. “I’m sick of remakes, how about something different. That’s the thing – people always come to me and are like ‘what do you want to remake, we know we can get that greenlight, what do you want to make?’ I don’t want to remake a g-d damn focking think.”

— Rob Zombie

24. “Sometimes I feel like people don’t even know how to react in some situations because of online culture. Since many things are online, you might not react to something that is happening live.”

— Rob Zombie

25. “I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that – it still seems freaky.”

— Rob Zombie

26. “It’s lifestyle music. It’s not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can’t name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We’ll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.”

— Rob Zombie

27. “Dreaming be damned, this is control. Raping your soul, devil’s hole.”

— Rob Zombie

28. “If you have a lot of money, you know that you can make almost anything happen, but with a smaller budget you don’t have a lot of time or too many resources, so you have to conceive things in a very simple manner and make them happen fast.”

— Rob Zombie

29. “Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn’t know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they’ll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.”

— Rob Zombie

30. “I like being organized and super particular.”

— Rob Zombie

31. “Short answers seem like you don’t care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.”

— Rob Zombie

32. “When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I’m happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out.”

— Rob Zombie

33. “Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought “better keep these answers short or I’ll never get to all of these”.”

— Rob Zombie

34. “I’m not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I’m sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.”

— Rob Zombie

35. “I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.”

— Rob Zombie

36. “I think if you’re going to remake a film it should be something that was a good idea, but wasn’t executed well. There isn’t anything I would like to remake. I have too many of my own ideas I want to make.”

— Rob Zombie

37. “I’m definitely of the mindset of “I wouldn’t want to be part of any group that would have me as a member.””

— Rob Zombie

38. “No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it’s forgotten quickly after and it’s the original that still lives on.”

— Rob Zombie

39. “The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It’s not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it’s the indie bands that don’t have two cents to their name.”

— Rob Zombie

40. “I try to stay friends with everybody because you might go back and work with somebody who you had a horrible experience with and it could be great the next time. You never know which way it’s going to go, never say never.”

— Rob Zombie

41. “Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That’s Hollywood.”

— Rob Zombie

42. “The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it’s been shot at night with a security camera.”

— Rob Zombie

43. “When you lock a movie’s release date and then move it two months, it’s just not good. It’s good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.”

— Rob Zombie

44. “When you have too many people and you’re trying to satisfy everybody’s input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.”

— Rob Zombie

45. “I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.”

— Rob Zombie

46. “I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.”

— Rob Zombie

47. “I don’t believe in fate, because I’m not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.”

— Rob Zombie

48. “I don’t know that I have a fascination with witches per se – well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that’s weird.”

— Rob Zombie

49. “Sometimes things just aren’t of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.”

— Rob Zombie

50. “People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.”

— Rob Zombie