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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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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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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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 have news for him. They turned me into a movie director.
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I've got so much stuff in boxes at home, I could have five different museums,
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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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A life jacket will at least keep you floating.
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I think from the outset there was a prima facie case and this has been vindicated.
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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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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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Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.
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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.
rest-of-life age actors
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.