Bruce Campbell Quotations

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

The perception was it was a college movie, but it really wasn't, ... It was a completely professional venture where we formed a limited partnership and gave out shares. It was all above board. And we're so glad it was, because 25 years later we can still keep track of it. No one's suing anyone because we all know what happened.

Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

Digital blood is not effective.

You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do.

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling.

Studios might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something.

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.

If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.

I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.

You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

I'm wearing three hats; I'm acting, producing, and directing. I was very involved in developing the script, too. But to me, that is very liberating. To me, the lower the budget, the more I want to be involved. I want to be more in control of my own destiny when there isn't much money involved, because you don't have the experts who can control your destiny.

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.

Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You start to have inside jokes and gallows humor. You have all kinds of things you laugh at, but as soon as you tell somebody, the joke falls flat because they don't know the context of it.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.

It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.

Evil Dead" needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.

The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.

I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to do it. I'm not necessarily always aware of my quote-unquote persona when doing things like that. It's more, "What does the character need at the time?" I'm certainly drawn to certain types of material, there's no doubt about that.

The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time.

Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved.

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

You have to be careful with fans, they'll turn on you. They turn quick. Twitter can go dark fast. If you talk about something serious on Twitter, you better be ready. If you try to pull out real facts or talk about political opinions or something religious, forget it. Like if people asked me who I was voting for, you couldn't touch that one.

I don't say any word that I don't approve.

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

If you have it you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it, you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don't need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you don't already have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stockpile it if you like. But you can't fake it. Wanting it. Needing it. Wishing for it. The point is if you've never had any of it ever people just seem to know.

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.

We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.

When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

Make no mistake: given the dearth of black suppliers in key areas such as panel beating, tow-truck operators and the like, the charter targets will not be easily reached.

No cars look the same, no building looks the same, ... The streets don't look the same. ... You've got packs of wild dogs running around. It's not America.

Plenty of people will see 'Man With the Screaming Brain' and think it's the worst movie they've ever seen, ... But there's a group out there that'll be fine with it.

Nissan conducted an Internet survey of 2,000 echo boomers, a majority of which said technology and gaming are among the most important attributes in their first car.

Last Wednesday staff discovered a couple of areas of mould growth on some classroom walls. They were less than a square foot in surface area, totally different from the last time. There was something like three or four (areas) of surface mould growth, not the kind of stuff before, when it was behind the walls and growing for a long time. This is a different story.

I said, 'Josh, the good news is we're going to do your movie. The bad news is you're going first, sucker,' ... Because I didn't know what it would be like to shoot in (Bulgaria), and he blazed the trail. He cursed me every day.

like someone splashed soda up against the wall.

I think citizens groups ... are able to do a lot more,

I think it would be fun to take questions and to just rag on Hollywood,

When staff discovered it (the mould) we contacted an independent consultant who tested the area. He did a thorough inspection of the building and cleaned up the affected areas immediately. A follow up sampling showed the school was completely free of mould.

With a comic book, if you make it take place at night, it doesn't cost you a penny more, ... You can have rain and wind and sets that are vastly decorated, you can have great locations because you're making it all up ... it was a great opportunity to tell more of a true version of the story.

We want Urge to replicate the raw motorcycle experience as much as possible, with the exposed engine, door-panel cut-outs and open top. Motorcycles are exhilarating to drive and we want this car to feel the same way.

It was written by a lunatic, ... It's a quirky movie that you won't see on an airplane.

Once we got Rapids River Days put together, the interest waned, ... There's so many things we want to do.

It's a very dark tale of greed, betrayal and revenge in Bulgaria - all with a brain transplant!

Not surprisingly, most of the young, primarily male, respondents to our survey said that they want a small, fun-to-drive sports car that can incorporate the technology products that they use on a daily basis, such as cell phones, mp3 players and game consoles.

Oh my god, every one you can imagine for years and years,

It totally sounds like an advice book, ... but there's not a shred of advice in the entire book, which is good for any of your readers. It's a novel. It's a humor book. It's sort of a what-if scenario of what would happen if you took a B-movie actor, meaning me -- I take the lead role in the book -- and put him into a big Hollywood movie. The answer is that it's not good. It's a misadventure. I single-handedly take down a big Hollywood movie.

The Minister really set a positive tone. I think it's the first time an education minister made a public statement that funding in these areas was flat.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

I'm as happy as any director who's tormented by everything they had to change,

I can't think of any organization where there isn't room for improvement.

And most importantly, it plays pretty well with audiences.

The city is trying to develop a theme or an identity. I pushed the entrance sign.