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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We have all been beaten up in our careers, because horror is viewed as a low-rent genre, just a notch or two above pornography. And while it's true that we traffic in dark areas of violence and horror in our profession, because we get everything out on the screen and don't carry it around with us, we really are mostly nice guys.
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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.
horror-stories danger genre
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.
horror found movie-business
Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.
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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.
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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.
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Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.
news turned
I have news for him. They turned me into a movie director.
american-director england
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
boxes five stuff
I've got so much stuff in boxes at home, I could have five different museums,
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There's not a lot of breadth, so I make sure they have the training, that's how you maintain the edge.
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A life jacket will at least keep you floating.
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If we're going to need to pay a match of 25 percent on the cost of Katrina at the same time we have to absorb these lost revenues, frankly I don't know what we're going to do.
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Most of us come from the world of low-budget features. You learn to work quickly. But these were great -- they're very much like well-developed short stories.