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> [Last House offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying theater of the absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/last-house-offended-a-lot-of-people-the-results-in-the-theaters-even/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

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## More by Wes Craven

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/you-can-look-at-what-s-happened-to-america-in-the-last-years-and-say/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [ I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one \[film\],… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/i-have-felt-over-the-years-a-definite-progression-or-arc-from-feeling/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/i-realized-that-i-really-almost-by-accident-had-fallen-into-a/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/i-came-to-terms-with-living-mostly-in-a-world-of-horror-pictures-or/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/people-who-are-kind-of-at-the-cutting-edge-of-life-and-survival-and/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/but-i-made-him-the-deputy-secretary-for-homeland-security-because/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/dad-girls-don-t-fall-down-every-time-they-run/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/i-did-have-the-resource-of-having-taught-greek-mythology-and-the/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/i-m-writing-a-film-called-bug-it-s-an-original-script-and-it-s-not/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/something-like-nightmare-on-elm-street-to-me-was-kind-of-an/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/as-long-as-you-keep-the-audience-on-the-edge-of-their-seats-either/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/my-mother-wouldn-t-even-let-me-read-dc-comics/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/i-don-t-want-to-rescind-american-directors-but-i-think-that-european/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/a-collection-of-masks-depicting-historical-figures-in-life-and-what-i/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

> [It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/it-s-quite-rare-that-you-make-something-and-think-that-you-did/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

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