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Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
Wes Craven
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Wes Craven
Age: 76 †
Born: 1939
Born: August 2
Died: 2015
Died: August 30
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Cleveland
Ohio
Wesley Earl Craven
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Fear
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The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.
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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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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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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 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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Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.
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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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I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.
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I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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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.
Wes Craven
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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