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" A friend introduced me to Bob Shaye. He was one of the most remarkable men I've ever met. He was a Fulbright scholar, an excellent chef, and very knowledgeable about the arts. "

Wes Craven

Friend

Scholar

Men

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" I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally. "

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" 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. "

" 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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" I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous. "

" 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. "

" I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology. "

" You just find the best actors that you can. There's an inherent drama within the framework of scares and killings and all that. In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama. "

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

" 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. "

" My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background. "

Wes Craven

Mother

Background

" A businessman can be as military as any politician. "

" 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. "

" A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction? "

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" I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room. "

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

" All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps. "

Wes Craven

Horror

" A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired. "

" I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally. "

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

" 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. "

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