Quotes by John Carpenter

John Carpenter

A lot of it [success] is luck. That’s a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Luck

Right Time

Want

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

Digital Revolution

Film

Want

As a filmmaker, it’s about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I’ve known in my life – directors and writers – just haven’t made it and haven’t had a chance.

Chance

Directors

People

Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That’s a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don’t need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography – it’s horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.

Children

Dream

Real

Directing is all about storytelling. It’s not about equipment, or anything else.

Equipment

Storytelling

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

Evil

Halloween

Horror

Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that’s very powerful stuff.

Loss

Mind

Powerful

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.

Directors

Hard Work

People

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.

Fans

Firsts

Wrestling

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds – to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.

Communist

Nephew

Pounds

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Actors

Advertising

Age

Aim

Basketball

Beautiful

Believe

Break Through

Care

Careers

Casting

Chance

Character

Children

Cinema

Communist

Country

Crazy

Cutting

Danger

Deals

Digital Revolution

Directors

Dream

Ems

Environment

Equipment

Essence

Evil

Falling In Love

Fans

Fear

Feelings

Fighting

Film

Final Words

Finals

Firsts

Found

Fun

Gone

Growing Up

Halloween

Hands

Hard Work

Heart

Hero

Holiday

Horror

Horror Genre

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Quotes by John Carpenter

John Carpenter

A lot of it [success] is luck. That’s a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

As a filmmaker, it’s about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I’ve known in my life – directors and writers – just haven’t made it and haven’t had a chance.

Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That’s a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don’t need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography – it’s horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.

Directing is all about storytelling. It’s not about equipment, or anything else.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that’s very powerful stuff.

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.

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.

From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds – to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.

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