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" I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal. "
John Carpenter
Movie
Kind
Deal
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" I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note. "
John Carpenter
Keyboard
Just
I Can
" I love making movies. "
John Carpenter
Movies
I Love
Love
" I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again. "
John Carpenter
Music
Again
Watch
" It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture. "
John Carpenter
Good
Business
Look
" I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would. "
John Carpenter
Think
Comedy
Good Job
" I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble. "
John Carpenter
Pride
Trouble
Deep
" One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying. "
John Carpenter
Love
Today
Powerful
" To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster. "
John Carpenter
Like
Walk
Monster
" First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan. "
John Carpenter
Out
First
Fan
" Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse. "
John Carpenter
Life
Live
Look
" I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures. "
John Carpenter
See
You
Learning
" I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out. "
John Carpenter
Cinema
Work
Movies
" In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities. "
John Carpenter
Halloween
Character
Normal
" What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me. "
John Carpenter
Yourself
Why
You
" Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme. "
John Carpenter
Evil
Us
Theme
" In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. "
John Carpenter
Bum
Director
Us
" There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart. "
John Carpenter
Evil
Human
Heart
" There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes. "
John Carpenter
Lot
Care
About
" I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own. "
John Carpenter
Money
Movies
Decision
" Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work. "
John Carpenter
Live
Truth
Truth Is
" When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it. "
John Carpenter
Rest
Life
Age
" Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when. "
John Carpenter
Talk
Story
Me
" One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you. "
John Carpenter
Holidays
Horror
You
" When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally. "
John Carpenter
Love
World
Loved