What scares me is what scares you. Weโre all afraid of the same things. Thatโs why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and youโll know what frightens me.
John CarpenterYou play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.
John CarpenterFirst of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.
John CarpenterIt [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reยญinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.
John Carpenter