The more one judges, the less one loves.
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.
You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.
I don't do anything for the money. I don't need to. I could have retired after White Zombie and been just fine. Money doesn't matter. But there is still a good living to be made, even in the niche. The funny thing is, as time goes on, the niche stuff gets bigger and bigger.
Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?
Sometimes, you just have to realize, I'm not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out in a mainstream way is almost psychotic.
The only thing I ever really care about is animals - animal causes. I don't really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.
When Johnny Cash died,. . . I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking.
I remember being like, 12 years old, and this was in the days before cell phones, or at least, having a cell phone. Some girls, I can't even remember who they said they were, called and said they had a crush on me. But it turned out to be a prank, and I thought that was just straight up nasty, you know what I'm saying? You're just sort of developing. You're insecure, your bones are growing. . . you have trouble sleeping. And all of a sudden, someone's pranking you on top of that? It's tough growing up.
I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.