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John Carpenter Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“The only reason anybody from a studio comes to see you is if they think you’re going to make them money; they don’t come because they like you.”
— John Carpenter, John Carpenter Q&A: Why ‘Halloween’ Didn’t Need Sequels & What Scares The Master Of Horror
Tagged: Hollywood, Money, Movies, Artists
“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, Horror Master John Carpenter’s Greatest Quotes on Fear
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.”
— John Carpenter, Unmasking the Villain: Michael Myers
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“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, Horror Master John Carpenter’s Greatest Quotes on Fear
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. They’re us with hats on. The zombies in George Romero’s movies are us. They’re hungry. Monsters are us, the dangerous parts of us. The part that wants to destroy. The part of us with the reptile brain. The part of us that’s vicious and cruel. We express these in our stories as these monsters out there.”
— John Carpenter, Horror Master John Carpenter’s Greatest Quotes on Fear
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
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