A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.

Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird