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

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" 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. "

" That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It's an uplifting experience, and there's a sense of elation. "

" You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking. "

" Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to! "

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

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

" It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go. "

" There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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!' "