Wes Craven Quotes
Top 40 wise famous quotes and sayings by Wes Craven
Wes Craven Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Wes Craven on Wise Famous Quotes.
Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!
My goal is to die in my 90s on the set, say, 'That's a wrap,' after the last shot, fall over dead, and have the grips go out and raise a beer to me.
My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.
If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.
I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.
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.
I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.
A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.
When you do a film like 'My Soul to Take,' and people think it sucks, that hurts. We put a lot of work into it, and it's a good film, but you go on.
I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.
I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.