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" 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. "
Wes Craven
Dying
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" I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work. "
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" In high school, we would give away rulers to our friends that said, 'Jesus loves you.' I couldn't put together the concept that Jesus loves you, but if you don't love him back, you'll burn in hell forever. I worried, 'I'm rejecting the Holy Spirit, so I'm definitely going to burn in hell.' "
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" 'Nightmare on Elm Street' wasn't that big. Over a long period of time it did very well, but this was different. 'Scream' didn't have a strong first weekend, and it went down the second, but then it kept going up. "
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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!' "
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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. "
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" My whole background was in voracious book-reading. "
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" 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. "
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" '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. "
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Me
" Within the structure of 'Scream 4,' there is the film within a film, but that's been part of the 'Scream' franchise since 'Scream 2,' when you had the 'Stab' franchise. "
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" Great horror films don't win Academy Awards. "
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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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Society
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" 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. "
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Feel Good
Freedom
" If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre. "
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" 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. "
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Me
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Back
Think
" The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself. "
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Monster
Yourself
" A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired. "
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Circumstances
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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. "
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" Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to! "
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" I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it. "
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" In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama. "
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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. "
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" 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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" Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence. "
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" A businessman can be as military as any politician. "
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" 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. "
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" Basically, I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well, it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after 'Deadly Blessing' and 'Swamp Thing,' that's what happened. "
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" I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along. "
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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. "
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