Wes Craven Quotes

Basically, I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well, it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after 'Deadly Blessing' and 'Swamp Thing,' that's what happened.

Wes Craven

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1939 - August 30, 2015

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I've been into guns ever since I was a little kid, and the ones that fascinate me most are the black powder guns that people used back in the 17 and 1800s.

Joe Perry

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I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

Jennifer Damiano

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We don't want to watch boring characters.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

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I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

Megan Fox

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Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard Hughes, I could have him give a monologue about how he's terrified to touch a doorknob. But on screen, you know, working with Marty Scorsese in 'The Aviator,' that became the series of images that told a story.

John Logan

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Once you see the impact that you have on people, either at a meet and greet or after a show, you think, 'Oh man, they need to feel better today.'

Andy Grammer

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I was deep into it - worldwide liberation politics as well as domestic - but by the end of the '80s, I had decided it all comes down to one single issue: campaign-finance elimination.

Steven Van Zandt

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I figured being fat was my destiny.

Ron Lester

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Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.

Mary Tyler Moore

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I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

MaryJanice Davidson

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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

Michelle Bachelet

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The O.M.B. director puts together the budget. It handles every executive order. It is the clearing house for every single federal regulation. It has input into all the management of all of the federal agencies... It is involved with everything. And I thought, 'That's where I want to be.'

Mick Mulvaney

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