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John Carpenter Quotes

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 16, 1948

Topics

Horror Director Filmmaker Us Bum

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

Alone Imagination Being Alone Me Kid

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.

Family Best Support Small Ownership

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Rodman Philbrick

Good Children Imagination Write

Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

Money Internet Year Back Most Were

The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room. You are the boss; you set the pace and rhythm of your reading. In the movie house, you can't do that.

Boss Book Reading You House Privacy

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

Parents Youth Free Alcohol Behavior

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

Law Violence You Something Deal

I've had a lot of successes as a songwriter, and I really have nothing to prove in that arena, so I'm just excited about the next challenge of pursuing this artist thing.

Challenge Artist Nothing Prove Next

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Goals People Learn Enough Long Find

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

Art Dressed Now Renaissance Theory

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Family World Important Most Thing

Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting.

Day Fun People Think Uncomfortable

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