I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much. Wes Craven More Quotes by Wes Craven More Quotes From Wes Craven Horror films don't create fear. They release it. Wes Craven releasehorrorfilm I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear. Wes Craven believecultureenemy 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 normalmonstersfirsts A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction? Wes Craven nicedoemonsters As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want. Wes Craven guessingscarelong All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps. Wes Craven individualhorrorfilm The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing. Wes Craven realizingstoriespeople The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself. Wes Craven halloweenscaremonsters Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep. Wes Craven examinationpainfall I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars. Wes Craven starsupliftingart I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much, and to kind of look to where your vision is going now. But I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one, because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in. 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 creativedarkthinking If you think it, the camera will see it. Wes Craven camerasifsthinking 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 that. Wes Craven cuttingsurvivalpeople [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 donedarkfeelings I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. Wes Craven genrehorrorworld I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet. Wes Craven skeletonsscarywant 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 as somebody dangerous and scary - that can be sold, but trying to sell me for some other kind of picture, like Music Of The Heart, was very difficult. Wes Craven parisscaryheart 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. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device. Wes Craven titleswritingschool I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, "Thank you! Thank you, I love your films!" And it's people who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, who like my films, and I like that. Wes Craven cuttinglove-youpeople 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 are exposed to all different cultures, they can easily travel from one distinct culture to another in a matter of hours - you can drive for two weeks across the United States and you're in the same basic culture - so there is a certain breadth of understanding and sophistication that they bring to it and frankly, in some cases they are less expensive than American directors. Wes Craven europetwothinking
