43+ Wes Craven Quotes On Horror, Thriller And Thriller

Wes Craven was an American director, writer, producer, and actor. He was best known for his work in the horror genre, with films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and The Hills Have Eyes. He was also a major influence on the horror genre, and his work has been praised by critics and fans alike. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Wes Craven on horror, horror, thriller.

Top 10 Wes Craven Quotes

1. Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
2. The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.
7. 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.
8. Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.
9. I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."
10. I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

Wes Craven Short Quotes

• Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.
• If you think it, the camera will see it.
• My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

Wes Craven Quotes About Horror

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. — Wes Craven

There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do. — 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. — Wes Craven

Wes Craven Quotes About Making

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

I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit. — Wes Craven

I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet. — Wes Craven

It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done. — Wes Craven

Wes Craven Famous Quotes And Sayings

The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing. — Wes Craven

When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father was gone by the time I was 5, I think, but this man would take us to Telenews at the end of World War II, and we'd watch all these newsreels. I'd seen real stuff. That kind of stuck in my mind. — Wes Craven

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, "Thank you! Thank you, I love your films!" And it's people who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, who like my films, and I like that. — Wes Craven

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

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

I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot. — Wes Craven

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. — Wes Craven

There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war. — Wes Craven

I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about Vietnam, and we couldn't get backing for any of it. And we both sort of drifted from making, at that time, serious money on Last House to going through it all in the course of almost three years and only getting offers to do something scary again. — Wes Craven

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

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

Last House offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying theater of the absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that. Thinking, "My God, people actually are getting into fistfights. People are having heart attacks. People are actually trying to get into the projection booth to destroy the print." — Wes Craven

If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be. — Wes Craven

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

I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist. I didn't go into a commercial movie house until I was a senior in college, and that was on the sly. It wasn't until I was in graduate school that I immersed myself in films. Then, I went to see all the films by Bergman, Fellini, etc. — Wes Craven

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

I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing that's what happened. — Wes Craven

I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it. — Wes Craven

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. — Wes Craven

I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime. — Wes Craven

I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom. — Wes Craven

I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy. — Wes Craven

I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in. — Wes Craven

Life Lessons by Wes Craven

1. Wes Craven's work teaches us that horror films can be used to explore deeper themes and social issues.
2. He also showed us that horror films don't have to be overly gory or violent to be effective.
3. Lastly, his films demonstrate the importance of creating interesting and complex characters that viewers can connect with.