John Carpenter Quotes - Page 1

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.
Guillermo Del Toro / Film Director
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More Others Than
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All of the John Carpenter movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
Joe Keery /
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John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
Jason Blum / Film Producer
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Genre
Messages
John
John Carpenter
Putting
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A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
George A. Romero / Film Director
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Horror Films
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Stephen King
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As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.
Casper Van Dien / Actor
Carpenter
Action Movies
John
John Carpenter
Meltdown
Tarzan
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
Pam Grier / Actress
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Film
Kind
Serious
Blockbusters
John
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'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
Neil Marshall / Film Director
Ark
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Hawks
Raiders
I Am Me Lost
Wild
John
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Ridley Scott
Sam
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At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Bullets
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Halloween
Lying
Said
Seeing
Window
Looking
Shot
Michael
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I remember when John Carpenter made 'The Thing;' I saw that in the theater with the Necros. Both of our bands went and nobody said a word until it was over. That's the kind of thing I like.
Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein /
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Remember When
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We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.
Dario Argento / Film Director
Brian
Carpenter
Directors
Downfall
Genre
Horror
Success Good Business
Success Business Good
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Led
Polluted
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Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.
Drew Goddard / Television Screenwriter
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Friday
Center
Clearly
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Sam
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John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
Donald Pleasence / Film Actor
Carpenter
Focused
Halloween
Ideas
Remains
Series
Vision
Original
Concept
Directed
Followed
Intent
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I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.
David Cronenberg / Filmmaker
Carpenter
Directors
Games
Guy
Hitchcock
Compared
George
John
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I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
John Leguizamo / Actor
Bravo
Brilliant
Carpenter
Cop
Familiar
Genre
Rio
Urban
Western
Turning
Flick
John
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People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic music. He did his soundtracks by himself, using mostly electronic and analog synthesizers. He's a cult figure with DJs these days for good reasons.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Analog
Carpenter
Cult
Djs
Electronic Music
Enough
Soundtracks
Good Music People
Good Music Enough
Did
Days
Electronic
Good Music Important
Figure
Himself
John
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Mostly
Realize
Reasons
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I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.
Harry Dean Stanton / Actor
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Casting
Christine
Great Deal
Investigator
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Leading
Leading Man
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