John Carpenter Quotes

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• The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

  John Carpenter

  Fear, Believe, Essence

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• What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you’ll know what frightens me.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Horror Genre, Scare

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• It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

  John Carpenter

  Loss, Horror Genre, Vices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

  John Carpenter

  Men, Scary, Monsters

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• There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.

  John Carpenter

  Heart, Two, Evil

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• Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

  John Carpenter

  Musical, Together, Pieces

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

  John Carpenter

  Halloween, Evil, Horror

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• We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

  John Carpenter

  Loss, Sanity

  Source: collider.com

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• Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

  John Carpenter

  Storytelling, Equipment

  Source: collider.com

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• When you have no money, you need invention.

  John Carpenter

  Needs, Invention, No Money

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does.

  John Carpenter

  Country, Thinking, Silent Films

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

  John Carpenter

  Horror, Found, Movie Business

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Loss, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble.

  John Carpenter

  Pride, Want, Film

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

  John Carpenter

  Passion, Fans, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

  John Carpenter

  Rest Of Life, Age, Actors

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• Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

  John Carpenter

  Horror Stories, Danger, Reactions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are just two basic stories in horror, two simple ones -- evil is outside and evil is in here [points to his heart].

  John Carpenter

  Heart, Technology, Simple

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• I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

  John Carpenter

  Jobs, Growing Up, Later In Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

  John Carpenter

  Luck, Want, Right Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching.

  John Carpenter

  Real, Horror Stories, Vampire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

  John Carpenter

  Cutting, Watches, Ems

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• Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

  John Carpenter

  Digital Revolution, Want, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

  John Carpenter

  Hard Work, People, Directors

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To survive you have to withstand the changes in the business. This business has gone through so many changes since I was young and now it is on to something else. It is all weird today, for me, because I am from the old times. You just have to keep adapting. Isn't that Darwinism? The creature that adapts to its environment survives.

  John Carpenter

  Gone, Today, Environment

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