Big crowds have always gotten to me.
I created Leatherface and the original Chainsaw. It's still my baby. The history books can't separate Tobe Hooper and Leatherface. I'm happy to see my little boy back at it.
I didn't know that much about the system back then, but I knew you needed to set off a big skyrocket-have a star or something.
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.
I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.
I grew up in hotels, my Dad was in the hotel business and I always wanted to make a film in a hotel, a Hollywood horror film.
I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
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.
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 was just standing in Montgomery Ward's in front of an upright display of chainsaws. And the focus just racked from my eyeball to the people to the saws, and the idea popped.
If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light.
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.
No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.
People want to go to motion picture theaters to see a new film with new stars-new actors of today, the stars of tomorrow.
The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.
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.
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.
You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.
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