The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people… — Wes Craven Copy Share
I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film],… — Wes Craven Copy Share
I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films.… — Wes Craven Copy Share
I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances to get… — Wes Craven Copy Share
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… — Wes Craven Copy Share
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage. — Wes Craven Copy Share
I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays… — Wes Craven Copy Share
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.… — Wes Craven Copy Share
Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth,… — Wes Craven Copy Share
As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything… — Wes Craven Copy Share
I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations in Europe… — Wes Craven Copy Share
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. — Wes Craven Copy Share
It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done. — Wes Craven Copy Share
