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…

— Wes Craven

I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first…

— Wes Craven

I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through…

— Wes Craven

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances…

— 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…

— Wes Craven

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

— Wes Craven

Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.

— Wes Craven

I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into…

— 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…

— Wes Craven

Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing…

— Wes Craven

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can…

— Wes Craven

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

— 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…

— Wes Craven

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

— Wes Craven

It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.

— Wes Craven

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

— Wes Craven

There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot…

— Wes Craven

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting…

— Wes Craven

“If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your…

— Wes Craven

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it…

— Wes Craven

[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…

— Wes Craven

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

— Wes Craven

I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful…

— Wes Craven

If you think it, the camera will see it.

— Wes Craven

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

— Wes Craven