If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light
Tobe HooperI had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Tobe HooperI 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.
Tobe HooperI 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
Tobe HooperLaw 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
Tobe HooperThe films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.
Tobe HooperThe 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.
Tobe HooperYou can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.
Tobe HooperThousands 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.
Tobe HooperI 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.
Tobe HooperI 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
Tobe HooperI 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.
Tobe HooperThe 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.
Tobe Hooper