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Top 30 Wes Craven Quotes (2025 Update)

Wes Craven Quote: “Horror films don’t create fear. They release it.”

1. “Horror films don’t create fear. They release it.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifting stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.”

2. “I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifting stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.”

Wes Craven Quote: “The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.”

3. “The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.”

Wes Craven Quote: “The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.”

4. “The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it’s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.”

5. “I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it’s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.”

Wes Craven Quote: “As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.”

6. “As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn’t matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.”

7. “I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn’t matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I make something I can look at and say, “That’s a good piece of work, and there’s some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it.””

8. “I make something I can look at and say, “That’s a good piece of work, and there’s some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it.””

Wes Craven Quote: “I’m writing a film called ‘Bug.’ It’s an original script, and it’s not about killer insects. It’s a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.”

9. “I’m writing a film called ‘Bug.’ It’s an original script, and it’s not about killer insects. It’s a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.”

10. “I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.”

Wes Craven Quote: “Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.”

11. “Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.”

Wes Craven Quote: “Dad, girls don’t fall down every time they run.”

12. “Dad, girls don’t fall down every time they run.”

Wes Craven Quote: “A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren’t so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?”

13. “A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren’t so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?”

Wes Craven Quote: “Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they’re turning in alot of money.”

14. “Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they’re turning in alot of money.”

Wes Craven Quote: “It’s quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.”

15. “It’s quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.”

16. “I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.”

17. “I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.”

Wes Craven Quote: “If you think it, the camera will see it.”

18. “If you think it, the camera will see it.”

Wes Craven Quote: “A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.”

19. “A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I’ve found that if you have two films that don’t perform well it doesn’t matter that you’ve had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing that’s what happened.”

20. “I’ve found that if you have two films that don’t perform well it doesn’t matter that you’ve had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing that’s what happened.”

Wes Craven Quote: “There’s more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don’t pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.”

21. “There’s more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don’t pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I’m having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.”

22. “I’m having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.”

23. “I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.”

Wes Craven Quote: “If you’re in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.”

24. “If you’re in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.”

25. “I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.”

Wes Craven Quote: “I think that there has been a slow recognition that there’s a mind at work here, and there’s a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don’t know that I would’ve been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T’Aime.”

26. “I think that there has been a slow recognition that there’s a mind at work here, and there’s a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don’t know that I would’ve been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T’Aime.”

Wes Craven Quote: “People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.”

27. “People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.”

Wes Craven Quote: “All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.”

28. “All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.”

Wes Craven Quote: “My mother wouldn’t even let me read DC Comics.”

29. “My mother wouldn’t even let me read DC Comics.”

Wes Craven Quote: “But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.”

30. “But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.”

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