There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
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. — 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 were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because… — 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 Image
I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much,… — 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 outside and do something different, like Paris, Je T'Aime or Music Of The Heart, but mostly it's been my lot. And to have created, with a few shocking films, an awareness or a perception of me… — 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 Image
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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