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The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.

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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?

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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.

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Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!

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You learn a lot more from those bumps than from when things are going great.

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Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

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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.

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A friend introduced me to Bob Shaye. He was one of the most remarkable men I've ever met. He was a Fulbright scholar, an excellent chef, and very knowledgeable about the arts.

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I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking. Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 2nd, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2015

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