Top 90 Rob Zombie Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When I watch a movie, I don’t make a sound or move. The more I’m into the movie, the more bored I look.”

— Rob Zombie

52. “A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, “We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song.” You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.”

— Rob Zombie

53. “A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It’s a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.”

— Rob Zombie

54. “One of the main things when you get notes from a studio is they don’t want anyone to be confused ever, everything has got to be so obvious at all times unless it’s a twist ending.”

— Rob Zombie

55. “I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting – always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It’s not really that I am a control freak; it’s just that is what I love.”

— Rob Zombie

56. “By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.”

— Rob Zombie

57. “On the first feature, everything’s new. No matter what you’re doing, it’s a new experience, and you don’t really have control over it, in a way, because you just don’t know how things work.”

— Rob Zombie

58. “I’m psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That’s just the way I’ve been about everything my whole life.”

— Rob Zombie

59. “In the US everybody is about what’s new and what’s next and they don’t really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe – if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.”

— Rob Zombie

60. “Sometimes I’ll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I’ll get maybe seven rows out and I’m out of synch, I’m a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.”

— Rob Zombie

61. “I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it’s bad.”

— Rob Zombie

62. “Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.”

— Rob Zombie

63. “Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he’s fantastic. I worked with him once; he’s a really great actor.”

— Rob Zombie

64. “But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.”

— Rob Zombie

65. “I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings – every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn’t be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.”

— Rob Zombie

66. “Every time I start the next movie, it’s as exciting as the first time.”

— Rob Zombie

67. “I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.”

— Rob Zombie

68. “Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it’s a huge undertaking.”

— Rob Zombie

69. “There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn’t actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It’s kind of a weird thing.”

— Rob Zombie

70. “I’d always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I’m still like that. It’s the way I see the world.”

— Rob Zombie

71. “There’s always the trick with anything what’s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?”

— Rob Zombie

72. “It’s never been about making money.”

— Rob Zombie

73. “I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn’t happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.”

— Rob Zombie

74. “I’m never aiming to make a movie like someone else’s movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn’t seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.”

— Rob Zombie

75. “I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.”

— Rob Zombie

76. “Things like that become a blur – shot at some soundstage, somewhere – that’s as much as I can remember.”

— Rob Zombie

77. “NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won’t run the spots on MTV, won’t run the advertising. It’s the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.”

— Rob Zombie

78. “I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn’t hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn’t affect anyone – come on.”

— Rob Zombie

79. “There are so many projects that don’t happen, just sometimes they don’t get announced, so no one ever knows about them and you don’t have to talk about them.”

— Rob Zombie

80. “As far as directors, I’m a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.”

— Rob Zombie

81. “Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.”

— Rob Zombie

82. “The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it’s not like it’s all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer’s personality is different. You never know what you’re going to do.”

— Rob Zombie

83. “I love all kinds of movies. I’d especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.”

— Rob Zombie

84. “I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.”

— Rob Zombie

85. “White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can’t do it.”

— Rob Zombie

86. “I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven’t crossed them over that much.”

— Rob Zombie

87. “I think so much about everything. I’m obsessive.”

— Rob Zombie

88. “My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that’s always my goal.”

— Rob Zombie

89. “I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it’s supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.”

— Rob Zombie

90. “To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.”

— Rob Zombie

91. “All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.”

— Rob Zombie

92. “I’m not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they’re still not as good as the original, so what’s the point?”

— Rob Zombie

93. “I’ve always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.”

— Rob Zombie