My Father Was In The Ad Business,

I Think None Of The Humor In The First Evil Dead Was Intentional. We Weren't That Sophisticated. We Got More Sophisticated With Evil Dead 2 And Army Of Darkness Where You Can Start To Manipulate The Audience A Little More, Having More Control Over The Medium Instead Of Just Trying To Figure Out How To Do It. I Suppose That's Pretty Normal With Any Craft. Every Carpenter Is Better 20 Years Later.

Everybody's Got Brain Matter In Their Hair, And Somehow That Makes It A Very Happy Workplace.

Funny Stories On Set - There Are Thousands Of Them, But They Are Only Funny To The People Who Were On The Movies. You Start To Have Inside Jokes And Gallows Humor. You Have All Kinds Of Things You Laugh At, But As Soon As You Tell Somebody, The Joke Falls Flat Because They Don't Know The Context Of It.

I've Managed To Make A Living In A Very Ridiculous Business, And That's Fine With Me. The Trick Now Is, After You've Been In It For A While, You Still Have To Remember To Have Fun.

Once You Look Past The Hype, Actors Are Nothing More Than Fugitives From Reality Who Specialize In Contradiction: We Are Both Children And Hardened Adults—wide-eyed Pupils And Jaded Working Stiffs.