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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.
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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The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
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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'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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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