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.
I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. - Wes Craven
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
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…
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself. - Wes Craven
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much. - Wes Craven
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. - Wes Craven
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
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
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…
[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
[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…
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
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, …
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
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…
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