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

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In general, I don't even have the luxury of rehearsal time on most films that I make. It is just a scene-by-scene full cast read through. It's very much just doing the rehearsal sometimes the day before, at the end of the day, but just on the spot as the scene unfolds.

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I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

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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.

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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.

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My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.

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There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.

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It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to find these characters. It's not a place anyone can go, and sometimes it's not a place that you want to go.

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I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.

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I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 2nd, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2015

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