157 Quotes by Wes Craven

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.

You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.

My goal is to die in my 90s on the set, say, 'That's a wrap,' after the last shot, fall over dead, and have the grips go out and raise a beer to me.

In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.

The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.

In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.

I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.