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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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The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
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I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.
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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.
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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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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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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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If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
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Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
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I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.
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A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
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It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.
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My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.
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