I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

- Wes Craven

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 wit…

- Wes Craven

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

- Wes Craven

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

- 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, and how easy i…

- Wes Craven

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

- 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 of the power and the n…

- Wes Craven

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, …

- 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 make you into a monster, or can you temp…

- Wes Craven