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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.

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Wes Craven
Age: 76 †
Born: 1939
Born: August 2
Died: 2015
Died: August 30
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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.
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