[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. — 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 Image
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.… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
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 Image
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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