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If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.

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All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

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That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It's an uplifting experience, and there's a sense of elation.

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Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.

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

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You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.

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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.

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A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.

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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.

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I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 2nd, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2015

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