John Carpenter Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Mean, Kids

• It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

  John Carpenter

  Looks, Rooms, Tongue

• I had a talent for scoring films; I just developed it.

  John Carpenter

  Talent, Film

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2011.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

  John Carpenter

  Holiday, Careers, Killers

• 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

• 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.

• Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.

  John Carpenter

  Dream, Children, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

• 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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