You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.
Wes CravenI love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.
Wes CravenAs long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.
Wes CravenI like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.
Wes CravenThe experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.
Wes Craven