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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
#Forever
#Learning
#Motion
#Powerful
#See
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
#Big
#Music
#Myself
#Play
#Sound
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
#Character
#Halloween
#Shy
#Similarities
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
#Fan
#First
#Out
#Still
#Young
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
#Business
#Good
#Look
#Picture
#Time
I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.
- John Carpenter
#Comedy
#Good Job
#Good
#Job
#Know
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.
- John Carpenter
#Hard Work
#Live
#Movies
#Truth
#Work
To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.
- John Carpenter
#Like
#Make
#Man
#Monster
#Walk
Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
- John Carpenter
#Greed
#Life
#Live
#Look
#Never
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
#Know
#Me
#Powerful
#Why
#Yourself
Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.
- John Carpenter
#Ancient
#Evil
#Hiding
#Theme
#Us
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.
- John Carpenter
#Age
#Courage
#Life
#Love
#Movies
There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.
- John Carpenter
#About
#Care
#don't Care
#Lot
#Movies
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.
- John Carpenter
#Darkness
#Evil
#Heart
#Tribe
#Understand
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
- John Carpenter
#Director
#Filmmaker
#Germany
#Horror
#Us
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