How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.
From Wes Craven
I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.
When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that.
I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' was so important because it was such adult film-making - to see something that dealt with such an important issue and had such an enlightened outlook on the world.
You learn a lot more from those bumps than from when things are going great.
You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.
I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.
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?
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
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