A: About myself…um….ah…I was born a poor black child…

          A: I had a band called “White Zombie” for many years. Stopped that. Had a solo career, started directing music videos and then started making movies.

          A: Well my training ground for making movies, was directing music videos. That worked out really well. And then sometime around…well I don’t know…I tried breaking into making movies many times. There was even an ill-fated “Crow 3” project that I worked on for many, many months, actually for over a year. That never went. Then around 1999, started working on what eventually became “House of 1000 Corpses”

          A: Well, I want them to know many things. But the main things I want them to know is that it’s not a remake of “Halloween 2” in any way shape or form. It’s not a film that takes place in a hospital. It’s not the same old thing. A lot of people were excited about the new elements of the last “Halloween” I did. And this is that and more. It’s 100% all fresh and new . All different.

          A: Well I was approached…Well I was never ed approached at one point. I made it very clear after the last film that I didn’t want to do anymore. So no one ever approached me. But then I read about some of the directors that were attached to it. I had heard that 2 guys that directed a film called “Inside” were directing this movie. So I just kind of never thought about it anymore. But I was at the Scream Awards last October and I was ran into someone at Dimension films and I asked them “So how’s it going on Halloween 2…is it going well?” And they said “ah, well changed our mind…we got different writers, different directors and the project hasn’t moved at all.” And at that point, I was doing anything else, I was in between projects. So I told them “I might be interested in doing it now” because I wasn’t before. I told them I’d be interested. I talked to Weinstein the following day and it was full steam ahead from there on out.

          A: Nothing was particularly difficult. I mean…well the most difficult was the one thing we could never ever have imaged was, we shot the movie down in Georgia, starting in February. And the weather for some reason in Georgia was insane. One day it would be burning hot, like scorching hot, the next day we literally had a snow storm, a blizzard, 8 inches of snow fell in what seemed like half hour. And the main problem was basically it rained every single day we were shooting. And that is a drag. Every time there’s a scene in this movie that takes place in the rain, we didn’t necessarily want to shoot it in the rain but it just fucking raining and we had no choice. It gets draining after awhile.

          A: Um you know what. The first day we were shooting, the first shot in the whole movie was of Laurie Strode being wheeled into the emergency room on a gurney, with a neck brace and the broken leg. And the second we filmed it, I knew it was gonna work. That one scene was so intense and so real. It was better than anything we shot in the whole first movie. So I knew things were gonna be great.

          A: There's something you learn from every movie. And it was my first movie so I will never learn as much from any film as I did from that one. And that was definitely a trial by fire situation. You can real all the books you want but nothing will prepare you for making a movie. And so, I mean…preparation is the main thing you learn. The more prepared you are, there will always be problems on a set, things you will never ever be prepared for. The more you can accomplish in pre-production the more you can salvage while you are working. The funny thing about movies, is you need a thousand things to go right ever day but you only need one thing to go wrong to really fuck up the whole thing. You have to think fast. You learn to think on your feet.

          A: I have no idea. I mean I have no idea what the next movie would be. I have a new record coming out in November. I am going on tour for awhile, and during the course of the tour, I will figure out which movie is next. I don’t have not a clue as to what that is now.

          A: There are tons of people I want to work with. Unfortunately for the movies I’ve been making they’re not appropriate. But as far as actresses I’d love to work with is Julie Christie, she’s like my favorite. She’s spectacular. As far as an actor, there’s so many people I love to death. Unfortunately some of the people I’d really love to work with keep passing away, like Roy Scheider. Really, really wanted to work with Roy Scheider. There’s a million people.

          A: The main thing you need to know…I meant there’s a million things you need to know but the main thing you need to know is, the director has to have a vision that he cannot be broken from. Because at all turns, whether its the studio or your friends or your family, or your fans or random people, they always have an opinion, someone is always gonna give you a conflicting opinion. You have to block it out and just hold on to your vision of what you’re trying to do, like a bit pull fucking clamped on to somebody’s leg. And at the end of the day that’s all you have. For the number of times somebody has tried to talk me out of it, and at the end of the day its worked. It’s all the time and you can’t be persuaded or dissuade by other people’s bullshit. You have to stay strong all the time.

          A: Well the main films that influence me, may not be films other people see. I am really influenced by films I saw as a kid. The first films I fell I love with. “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.” It’s kinda funny that they just remade that, but I don’t know how many people saw the first film. I don’t know if it influences my work in any shape or form. But that is one film that I’d say if you haven’t seen, you better go fucking see it.

          A: No.

          A: I liked John Carpenter’s original “Halloween.” Saw it a million times, love it to death. I haven’t seen any of the other ones.

          A: As a kid I was obsessed with the Partridge Family and H.R. Puff 'n' Stuff.