American - Director | August 2, 1939 - August 30, 2015
Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.
Wes Craven
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Within the structure of 'Scream 4,' there is the film within a film, but that's been part of the 'Scream' franchise since 'Scream 2,' when you had the 'Stab' franchise.
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In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.
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In general, I don't even have the luxury of rehearsal time on most films that I make. It is just a scene-by-scene full cast read through. It's very much just doing the rehearsal sometimes the day before, at the end of the day, but just on the spot as the scene unfolds.
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I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.
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Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
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You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.
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Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!
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In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.
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My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
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There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.
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I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along.
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