Wes Craven Quotes

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  • A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

  • People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.

    Skeletons   Scary   Want  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

  • The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.

    "Exclusive Interview: Wes Craven Talks Yeah Tv, Nightmare On Elm Street And His Future". Interview with Eric Walkuski, www.joblo.com. March 15, 2013.
  • I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

    Acting   Looks   Pieces  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • 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?

    Nice   Monsters   Doe  
  • As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

    Long   Scare   Guessing  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • If you think it, the camera will see it.

    Thinking   Cameras   Ifs  
  • You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.

    Fun   Pain   Thinking  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. 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!" And it's people who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, who like my films, and I like that.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • 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.

    "“I Don’t Feel Like I Gave Birth to Jesus”: Wes Craven on A Nightmare on Elm Street". Interview with Jim Hemphill, filmmakermagazine.com. August 31, 2015.
  • 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.

  • I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.

    Uplifting   Art   Stars  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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. Thinking, "My God, people actually are getting into fistfights. People are having heart attacks. People are actually trying to get into the projection booth to destroy the print."

    Heart   Thinking   Boston  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.

    Girl   Running   Dad  
  • 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.

    Home   Thinking   People  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

    Country   War   Hero  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • 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.

    Jobs   Doors   Feet  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances to get outside and do something different, like Paris, Je T'Aime or Music Of The Heart, but mostly it's been my lot. And to have created, with a few shocking films, an awareness or a perception of me as somebody dangerous and scary - that can be sold, but trying to sell me for some other kind of picture, like Music Of The Heart, was very difficult.

    Heart   Paris   Scary  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • 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.

    Thinking   Color   People  
  • I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations in Europe are exposed to all different cultures, they can easily travel from one distinct culture to another in a matter of hours - you can drive for two weeks across the United States and you're in the same basic culture - so there is a certain breadth of understanding and sophistication that they bring to it and frankly, in some cases they are less expensive than American directors.

    Thinking   Europe   Two  
  • I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.

    Believe   Enemy   Culture  
  • I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in.

    Years   Feelings   Guilt  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much, and to kind of look to where your vision is going now. But I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one, because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in. Feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the power and the necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material.

    Source: film.avclub.com
  • My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

    World   Horror   Genre  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
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