John Carpenter
John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenteris an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 1970s and 1980s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 January 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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There was no real censorship involved, which is a tantalizing draw,
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Our officer reached out and grabbed her arm just as she was about to go over the edge.
news turned
I have news for him. They turned me into a movie director.
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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
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He only played about one year; then he retired,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
digital-revolution want film
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.
luck want right-time
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.
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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.
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Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.