[When asked what he would want with him if stuck on a deserted island] "A continent."

If you go to Hollywood, you`ve already sold out. By the sheer act of going there, you`re saying, `I need to go there because this is the only way I can get my movie made.` Baloney! Indiana`s the place to make your movie. Pontiac, Michigan. Whatever. Then you`re just making it on the merits of the movie. You don`t have to have any discussions about what`s hip now. Who can we get to do the soundtrack? You can actually put a score to your movie instead of a soundtrack. I get this thing all the time. Filmmakers go, `Can I send you a script? You`ll read it and attach yourself and we`ll package it.` Why can`t you get the money based on nothing, just the script? This whole packaging thing is out of control. Then you get absurd casting because it`s all packaged by the same talent agency. The sensibility is so bizarre.

There is a large element of me in every role I do. Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

[On why he turned down the chance to reprise his role in a sequel to Bubba Hotep]: Don Coscarelli is a very passionate filmmaker. We got to a few points that we couldn`t reconcile. I want to keep our friendship, so we parted ways. So I`m not part of that project.

[About the Evil Dead trilogy] For me, the first film was frankly about learning how to act. I can watch [The Evil Dead (1981)] from about halfway on without cringing . . . When Army of Darkness (1992) came around, we decided to make a different type of movie altogether and made an action-adventure picture with the same imbecile.

Don`t aspire to be a B-movie director, you`ll be there soon enough.

[about Assault on Dome 4 (1996) (TV) and Moontrap (1989)]: The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.

[about his fans] Thanks for being very loyal . . . they`re very well-informed and they`re very loyal. Tell `em I`ll need them on that opening weekend.

I can`t vouch for the script because they never gave us full scripts for Spider-Man (2002). They would only give you the pages, and they all had serial numbers, and if it ever wound up on the Internet, they would sue you and murder you and take your children.