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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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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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.
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I have a lot of people donate stuff to me, ... People just give it to me because they know I wouldn't sell it.
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There was no real censorship involved, which is a tantalizing draw,
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A lot of things that come out of the university are enabling-types of technologies or platforms that can be licensed.
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When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
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