Wes Craven famous quotes

04-08-2025

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
-- Wes Craven

#Horror #Film #Release
I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.
-- Wes Craven

#Believe #Enemy #Addresses
The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.
-- Wes Craven

#Firsts #Normal #Monsters
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?
-- Wes Craven

#Nice #Cards #Way
If you think it, the camera will see it.
-- Wes Craven

#Thinking #Cameras
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
-- Wes Craven

#Halloween #Scare #Firsts
I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.
-- Wes Craven

#School #Writing #Surveillance
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.
-- Wes Craven

#Political #Elements #Deputies
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
-- Wes Craven

#Historical #Mask #Figures
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.
-- Wes Craven

#Thinking #Color #People
I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.
-- Wes Craven

#Jobs #Feet #Doors
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
Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.
-- Wes Craven

#Our World #Tvs #Doe

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