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
men scary monsters
To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.
fear believe essence
The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.
heart two evil
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.
great learn short work
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.
against document fresh gotten life primal scream states united
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.