Quotes by Wes Craven

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 necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material.

Dark

Done

Feelings

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

Figures

Historical

Mask

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?

Doe

Monsters

Nice

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.

Film

Horror

Individual

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.

Guessing

Long

Scare

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

Deputies

Elements

Political

Horror films don’t create fear. They release it.

Film

Horror

Release

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.

Art

Stars

Uplifting

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.

Heart

Paris

Scary

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

Color

People

Thinking

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Art

Blessing

Cameras

Color

Creative

Cutting

Dark

Dc Comics

Deputies

Doe

Done

Elements

Examination

Fall

Father

Feelings

Figures

Film

Firsts

Fun

Guessing

Guilt

Heart

Historical

Horror

Ifs

Important

Individual

Let Me

Long

Love You

Mask

Monsters

Mother

Nice

Normal

Our World

Pain

Paris

People

Phones

Political

Real

Realizing

Release

Scare

Scary

School

Stars

Stories

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Quotes by Wes Craven

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 necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material.

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

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?

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.

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.

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

Horror films don’t create fear. They release it.

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.

I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.

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