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The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.
Wes Craven
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Wes Craven
Age: 76 †
Born: 1939
Born: August 2
Died: 2015
Died: August 30
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Wesley Earl Craven
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I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.
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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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There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.
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My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.
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When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind.
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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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Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.
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I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.
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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.
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I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.
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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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