Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombieis an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. Zombie rose to fame as a founding member of the heavy metal band White Zombie, releasing four studio albums with the band. Zombie's first solo effort was a song titled "Hands of Death"with Alice Cooper, which went on to receive a nomination for Best Metal Performance at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards. He released his debut solo studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe in 1998. The album went on to sell...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth12 January 1965
CityHaverhill, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
People have this delusion that everything has to be for everybody at all times. Every album must be liked by everybody, and every TV show must be liked by everybody, and every movie must be liked by everybody. Everything then becomes bland.
Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.
I like being organized and super particular.
I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.
You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.
There are so many projects that don't happen, just sometimes they don't get announced, so no one ever knows about them and you don't have to talk about them.
Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.
I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.
As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.