Quotes

Remember, at the end of the day we're not curing cancer. We're just making life more entertaining before we get cancer.

I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan. For instance, I did an appearance in Chicago where a kid drove something crazy like 7 hours to meet me. He knew no one else at the convention but within an hour he had met up with other kids in their Hatchet Army Tshirts and they were all very cool to each other. They were nice, normal people much like the good kids you would have known in High School. And I like that. There's enough negativity in the world and everyone has to take enough shit in life. I'm glad I can encourage people treating each other well and being happy. Let's face it; there are horror fans who can be dicks. Trying to be tougher than the next one, trying to be more outspoken and angry than the rest as if they are in the pit at a Pantera show trying to show how much bigger their cock is. I personally like knowing that 99% of the time, the kid in the Hatchet shirt is not the asshole in the room. I'm vocal about it and I thank my fans for that all of the time. I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

[Why he likes to work with the same people] Invest in people who want it as badly as you do.

To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

For all of my cheerleading and "never give up" bravado that I put out to whoever might be listening... the honest truth is that I want to give up and quit at least twice every single day. Those fan messages, postings, letters, tweets... they keep me going and remind me not just that what I do matters, but that I matter. Can a horror film, a candid podcast, or putting my real life on display in the form of a sit-com ever mean enough to change the world? Probably not. But it absolutely can mean enough to change an individual's world in a positive way.

Take your real life heartbreak and own it. Use it to empower you, not to disenchant you. Because when all is said and done, if you don't put your entire soul into every frame of every story that you tell, then you shouldn't be making movies in the first place. Just be prepared to bleed a little for the things you love. Be prepared to bleed for cinema. It's a wonderful thing.

Try something different. Make something that doesn't make sense. Take risks, fall down, and get hurt a bunch on the way. You'll heal and it will be OK. In the end you just might find yourself holding the best thing you've ever created in your very hands because it is within your own pain that the stories worth telling actually exist.

Though Digging Up The Marrow's critical reception was overwhelmingly positive and possibly the best of any of the films I've made yet, one exceptionally negative review called the film "criminally self indulgent" and ended by stating that "Adam Green sure is in the Adam Green business." Well, you're damn fucking right and there's no business I'd rather be in. I don't make movies for the paychecks or for the fame or for the glory. I don't make them for critics. I make them for an audience that has learned to expect nothing less than for me to always put my entire heart and soul into each and every project I commit to. Being me is all I can be and all I ever will be. That's what makes my movies my movies. My willingness to dig deep and expose my true self is exactly what makes each one of my films worth watching.

You can learn so much from bad people. You really can.

[on the Hatchet II censorship with the MPAA]; There is now an "R" rated version of Hatchet II that took us six months to get to that we had to do for Redbox because Redbox is a big supplier of movies that the distributor needs and they will not carry unrated movies no matter what. After people see the unrated one, they should really take the time to rent the "R" rated one and see the differences I'm talking about. For example, the chainsaw scene... He comes out with the chainsaw, he swings it under him and it cuts to the next scene. It doesn't chop him in half. Chad getting hit in the face thirty times with the hatchet, now he gets hit three times. They're changing the tone of the movie. They're changing everything about it. So, it's not a simple, "Shit, I wanted this shot in there and now I'm going to fight for it." It was a massacre what they were doing to it. The movie is not half as gory as Piranha. It's not half as serious as The Hills Have Eyes remake or some of these torture movies. It's appalling that they would be so hard on it.