I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany. Robert Englund More Quotes by Robert Englund More Quotes From Robert Englund I think I am a little too old now. Robert Englund littles thinking All my old surfing injuries have kind of come back to haunt me. Robert Englund injury surfing kind I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never seen before. Robert Englund festivals sometimes people People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things. Robert Englund actors character people Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive. Robert Englund alive fans careers I love new questions. Robert Englund I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out. Robert Englund red fake kind Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. Robert Englund universality nightmare dream I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that. Robert Englund vampire war thinking If a girl comes into your arms, that's pretty romantic. Robert Englund arms girl ifs We used to take girls to scary movies all the time, I don't know about you, but that was the place we would go for dates. Robert Englund used scary girl I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink. Robert Englund shrinks psycho obsessed I think that what's happened is that there's been a rediscovery of some good old-school films and a realization that there's always a place for them. We don't have to outgrow them with the new technology and we can do them with it and we can do them without it. We shouldn't always have the demands made on us to do it. Robert Englund technology school thinking If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them. Robert Englund care fun character In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've gotta have a little back story going. You've gotta take that time for exposition. Robert Englund stories character people Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story. Robert Englund scary dream people Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time. Robert Englund mexico careers real Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes. Robert Englund venice festivals world I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money. Robert Englund genre film needs Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport. Robert Englund surfing real sports