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" 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. "

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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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Color

" Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence. "

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

" I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it. "

Wes Craven

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Just Do It

" I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say 'Thank you' a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking. Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned. "

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

" 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

" The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Business

Fun

" I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer. "

Wes Craven

True

You

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

Wes Craven

Mother

Background

" Hawks is great, 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre,' 'The Big Sleep'... He could do the Salt-of-the-Earth very well. He was a very smooth director; a very good film architect in terms of his storytelling. "

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

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

" I came from a very strict background. "

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

" 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. "

" My whole background was in voracious book-reading. "

" 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'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. "