American - Director | August 2, 1939 - August 30, 2015
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
Wes Craven
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All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.
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If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
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I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
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The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
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You learn a lot more from those bumps than from when things are going great.
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You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.
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There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.
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I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.
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I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking. Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned.
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I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.
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I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.
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