ROB ZOMBIE spoke with Jay A. Fernandez from Billboard.com recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Billboard.com: Having come from the music world, do you feel like you've had to fight for respect in the filmmaking community?

Zombie: "Maybe it would concern me if I hadn't gone through the same thing in the music business. There are just certain types of things that don't get respect and never will; hard rock music doesn't. You watch the Grammys, and every year there are records that sell millions and millions of copies, and they'll present the award off-camera. Then they'll present best spoken word album that sold 200 copies on camera during primetime, and you're like, "Really?" Movies like this are the same way. Critics can gush over it and everyone goes crazy, but it is what it is. I don't care. Hey, it's a long, lonely life if you're standing around waiting for fucking respect from people that you don't even respect in the first place."

Billboard.com: What's the most annoying preconception of you that you have to deal with from film executives?

Zombie: "They learn real quick that they're wrong, but I think sometimes people think that I'm not serious and I'm not going to work hard. They can't distance the image from the person until they meet me, and then they realize, "This guy works so hard and is so serious, he's gonna drive me up the wall." Because I will bust balls really fucking hard to get shit done. I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life."

Billboard.com: So what's next?

Zombie: "On Sept. 22, I have an animated film coming out, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. After that, I have an album that's coming out in November, and then I'm going back on tour for a while, just to mix it up."

Read the entire interview here.