John Carpenter

“The worst thing you can do as a filmmaker is to make a movie for the critics.”

“I think the best horror movies are the ones that are about something else.”

“Everybody has a good side and a bad side, and the monster is the bad side. The monster is the thing that you don't want to see.”

“The old rules of cinema are gone. You can be a filmmaker now with a phone.”

“In France, I'm an auteur. In Germany, a filmmaker. In the UK, a horror director. In the USA, a bum.”

“The scariest monster is the one that's inside of us.”

“Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre.”

“I don't want to be in the mainstream. I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual.”

“What's the meaning of life? I don't know, I'm a filmmaker. I don't have a clue.”

“I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe in order.”

“My advice is, if you're going to make a horror movie, make it something that you would want to see.”

“My whole career has been an accident. I just fell into it.”

“The great thing about horror is that it's a universal language.”

“I love the fact that I can make a living telling stories. I don't have a real job.”

“I just want to make movies that are entertaining. I don't want to preach.”