American - Director | August 2, 1939 - August 30, 2015
It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.
Wes Craven
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I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.
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I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say 'Thank you' a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people.
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I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.
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I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.
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A businessman can be as military as any politician.
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A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.
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I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
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My goal is to die in my 90s on the set, say, 'That's a wrap,' after the last shot, fall over dead, and have the grips go out and raise a beer to me.
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You want to give the person as much freedom as you can within the boundaries of being a responsible producer with a contract to a studio. It's about giving as much freedom as you can, and the more the filmmaker proves he or she is on the track that you feel good about, then you just kind of watch dailies.
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My whole background was in voracious book-reading.
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My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background.
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