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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.
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 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 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 was] feeling like I'd done something horrible, I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse, and all these things, to a sense of the power and the necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material.
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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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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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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 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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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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It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.
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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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A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
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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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Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.
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Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
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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 believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.
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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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If you think it, the camera will see it.
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The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
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