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A businessman can be as military as any politician.


You want to give the person as much freedom as you can within the boundaries of being a responsible producer with a contract to a studio. It's about giving as much freedom as you can, and the more the filmmaker proves he or she is on the track that you feel good about, then you just kind of watch dailies.


I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.


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


I didn't see many films until I was in college teaching.


I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along.


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


I came from a very strict background.


Great horror films don't win Academy Awards.


Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.


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


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.


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


I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say 'Thank you' a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people.


How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.


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.


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.


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


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?


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