And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.
But Freddy's been very, very good to me.
But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.
But now it's sort of a rite of passage for 12 and 13-year-old boys when mom and dad leave to watch the entire boxed set of Freddy Krueger movies.
Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.
I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
I just think the funny response would be that I think there needs to be a Bride of Freddy. I think Freddy needs a woman in his life.
I think Freddy's cost me one job that I wanted in my whole life and that was a directing job because they didn't think I could do comedy.
I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.
If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.
It is still a surprise and an honor when I find myself mentioned in the same breath with Karloff and Chaney.
Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.
Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
My hero would be someone to fight off the cynicism, the cynicism that is in the world today, like corporate greed.
One of my favorites is the Fran Joswick Therapeutic Riding Center. This is just this amazing thing where you put disabled children and adults on horses.
So I'm certainly not going to whine about being 30 years now in the business and having hit movies for the last 19.
That's where it all starts: writer knows best and the writer is my first god, then I serve the director, then I serve myself.
The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.
The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
There will always be sequels, it is par of pop culture, what's old is new again.
What's great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.
You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.
Has his character of Freddy Krueger in some episodes of The Simpson.
His character of Freddy Krueger always returns even if he's normally finally dead...
Made a lot of scary movie like Night Terrors, The Mangler, Urban Legend and Wishmaster.
Robert is currently directing Killer Pad in Los Angeles. It's a horror/comedy about three friends who move out of their parents homes into a rented house which is really a Portal to Hell.
Is an avid King of the Hill (1997) fan.
He is of Swedish descent.
Married three times, the first occurred during his college heyday. His second wife, actress Roxanne Rogers, had a small part in the only movie he directed, 976-EVIL (1989).
Member of Actors' Equity Association (1968-), Screen Actors Guild (1973-), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Directors Guild of America.
Attended UCLA (for three years) and Oakland University (in Rochester, MI).
He's a horror fan.
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