List of Tobe Hooper Quotes

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 Had Worked So Hard For So Long That I Developed A Speech Impediment. It Happens When I Get Tired.

The Influences In My Life Were All Kind Of Politically, Socially Implanted. And Then There Was Watergate.

You Need An R Rating Because Without One, You Can't Advertise And The Film Won't Get Shown

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.

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.

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

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.

If One Sees The American Nightmare First And Chainsaw After That, You'll See It In A Different Kind Of Light

The Films I Liked Were European Films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

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