It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre.… — 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
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other… — 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
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
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
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
It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 see them… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life. — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note. — John Carpenter Copy Share Image