43 Wes Craven Quotes for You to Enjoy

Wes Craven

American Director

Born: Aug 2, 1939

Died: Aug 30, 2015

Films Great Me People Think You

Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum. Wes Craven

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If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can. Wes Craven

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You learn a lot more from those bumps than from when things are going great. Wes Craven

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I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films. Wes Craven

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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. Wes Craven

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I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it. Wes Craven

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How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason. Wes Craven

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Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well. Wes Craven

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I don't know, I always had an active dream life, and there's something so profound and wonderful about a movie. It's so alive. It's so shared. The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event. Wes Craven

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I came from a very strict background. Wes Craven

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Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, 'Thank you! Thank you - I love your films!' Wes Craven

I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own. Wes Craven

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My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say. Wes Craven

The 'Scream' series is unique in that it's an ongoing murder mystery, even though it's a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone. Wes Craven

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I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for the studios to let me keep working, but you also want those films to have content that makes you proud you made the film. That's not easy, but it's a fun puzzle to figure out. Wes Craven

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When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that. Wes Craven

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I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. Wes Craven

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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. Wes Craven

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I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along. Wes Craven

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