I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

You 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.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown

I 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.

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light

The 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.

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