I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

Last House offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying theater of the absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that. Thinking, "My God, people actually are getting into fistfights. People are having heart attacks. People are actually trying to get into the projection booth to destroy the print."

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about Vietnam, and we couldn't get backing for any of it. And we both sort of drifted from making, at that time, serious money on Last House to going through it all in the course of almost three years and only getting offers to do something scary again.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.