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

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

Wes Craven

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“The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.”
“the importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art”

Source : "Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations". Book by Partha Mitter, 1994.
“Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.”

Source : Willis W. Harman, Institute of Noetic Sciences (1988). “Global mind change: the promise of the last years of the twentieth century”
“Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.”
“He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.”
“As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.”
“Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?”

Source : "Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.

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