In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film.… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
We've got the prettiest girls in the world here in Los Angeles and there's a great music scene. And I learned what… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman. — John Carpenter Copy Share
From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic,… — John Carpenter Copy Share
It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days… — John Carpenter Copy Share
Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are just two… — John Carpenter Copy Share
Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story. — John Carpenter Copy Share
A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to… — John Carpenter Copy Share
I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them… — John Carpenter Copy Share
I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life. — John Carpenter Copy Share
One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be… — John Carpenter Copy Share
What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you… — John Carpenter Copy Share
In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer,… — John Carpenter Copy Share
We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something. — John Carpenter Copy Share
“I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes." ~Dr. Sam Loomis/Halloween” — John Carpenter Copy Share
I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or… — John Carpenter Copy Share
