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" I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work. "

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" I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door. "

" There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations. "

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

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

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

" If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre. "

" I think being Jewish has been covered really well but almost nothing about being fundamentalist Protestant. For years, I've had a movie in my mind called 'Total Immersion' that looks to my life as a kid where you're immersed in this different worldview from almost everybody around you. "

" You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative. "

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

" Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn't the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn't seen anybody else. "

" I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it. "

" 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. "

" 'Last House' offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying Theater of the Absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep. "

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

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

" Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society. "

" I was always told that films were evil and such, but I started to realise what a load of crap it was that something this good should be forbidden. I had been allowed to read as much as I wanted when I was younger, so I recognised great art when I saw it; I just didn't realise it would be at the cinema as well. "

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

" I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching. "

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

" It's great to be thought of as the master of anything. Even idiocy. Master of idiocy, Wes Craven. But if it's master of horror or fear or whatever, that's great. "

" 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. "

" I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected. "

" I came from a very strict background. "

" 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. "