Wes Craven Quotes About Horror

Quotes about: Horror

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

  Wes Craven

  Horror, Film, Release

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

  Wes Craven

  Halloween, Scare, Monsters

  "Wes Craven, Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street Director, Dies at 76" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. August 31, 2015.

• [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

  Dark, Feelings, Done

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

• 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

  Horror, Film, Individual

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

  Wes Craven

  World, Horror, Genre

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

• 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

  Heart, Paris, Scary

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

• There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.

  Wes Craven

  Art, Thinking, Europe

• 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

  Dark, Thinking, Creative

  Source: film.avclub.com

• There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.

  Wes Craven

  Country, War, Hero

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

• I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.

  Wes Craven

  Powerful, Trying, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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