John Carpenter Quotes - Page 2

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• I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

  John Carpenter

  Writing, Play, Keyboards

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

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• What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.

  John Carpenter

  Symphony, Feelings, Sound

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them - electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

  John Carpenter

  Play, Ideas, Sound

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

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• In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

  John Carpenter

  Halloween, Teenager, Character

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• 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.

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• Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

  John Carpenter

  Mother, Break Through, Advertising

  Source: collider.com

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• I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

  John Carpenter

  Work Out, Cinema, Kind

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• 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

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• You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

  John Carpenter

  Play, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

  John Carpenter

  Basketball, Care, Aim

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.

  John Carpenter

  People, Directors, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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• I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

  John Carpenter

  Halloween, Names, Order

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• I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.

  John Carpenter

  Superhero, Kind, Deals

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• We've got the prettiest girls in the world here in Los Angeles and there's a great music scene. And I learned what I learned about cinema here in Los Angeles so it's always been really important to me as a city to live in and I love making movies about it.

  John Carpenter

  Love Making

  "The Horror Writer: John Carpenter". Interview with Joe Skinner on PBS "American Masters" podcast, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2017.

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• 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

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• When I got into the movie business, working with actors was the one thing I was really weak at. I didn't know what to say to actors. They scared me and intimidated me. The actors that I've worked with who have had a lot of experience, or who I've even grown up watching as a kid, were really scary. I was like, "What am I going to say to this person?" But, I've matured. It's fun. I understand what actors do now.

  John Carpenter

  Fun, Kids, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always involved with casting my movies. I have final word on it.

  John Carpenter

  Finals, Casting, Final Words

  Source: collider.com

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• One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

  John Carpenter

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Hero

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• Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

  John Carpenter

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

  John Carpenter

  Halloween, Maps, Very Sad

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• First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

  John Carpenter

  Wrestling, Fans, Firsts

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• I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

  John Carpenter

  Years, Long, Tvs

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

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• I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.

  John Carpenter

  Hands, Superhero, Gone

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• There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

  John Carpenter

  Care, I Don't Care, Remakes

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