157 Quotes by Wes Craven

The monsters are a little silly because they had no money, so obviously they can't show them for very long, ... But the film itself is a romp; a very bloody, goofy, scary one.

That's how this (movie) felt to me, a real director- actors' piece, with two people just sitting in airplane seats. It's gripping.

Alex was familiar with the location. It also meant we could spend another $2 million without taxes and union fees. As much as you don't like taking films out of the U.S., we had to do it.

Alex made the picture fresh, which was important. None of us wanted just to shoot the original script again. Alex took it and made it his own.

You can't ignore the 800-pound gorilla: There's no shortage of post-9/11 jitters. I don't think anybody likes sitting down next to a stranger for five hours.

It's kind of experiment time, ... We'll see if people get behind us, and if the picture's any good. But it has to be that people will experiment with me. If not, fine, I'll just go back to writing books or something. But I have the feeling I'm onto something.

It's a thriller, it's definitely not a horror film, but it has enough of the elements that also work in horror films like suspense.

It was the beginning of the end of my affiliation to the church,

It was a very concise, taut script, ... I simply chose not to have a standard car chase or any of that nonsense. I felt it was all about what's going on between these two characters. And the moment they're separated, I want to figure out how to get them back together again. I've actually had a lot of people thanking me for not making the movie go any longer than it had to.