I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking. Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned.
From Wes Craven
My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.
All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.
It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.
If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.
I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.
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