I Like To Address The Fears Of

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.

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.

I Love The Fact That A Lot Of My Audience Is People From The Inner City. African-americans Love My Films. Whenever I Go To Have A Meeting At Universal, The Security Guard Just Leaps To His Feet And Comes Over, Bumps My Hand, And Says, "thank You! Thank You, I Love Your Films!" And It's People Who Are Kind Of At The Cutting Edge Of Life And Survival, And Being Near The Nitty-gritty, Who Like My Films, And I Like That.

I Think The Important Thing About Staying Creative And Staying Sharp And Original Is Not To Look Back Too Much, And To Kind Of Look To Where Your Vision Is Going Now. But I Have Felt Over The Years A Definite Progression Or Arc From Feeling Guilty About What I Had Done With The First One, Because Certainly There Was All That Fundamentalist Guilt That Came Pouring Back In. Feeling Like I'd Done Something Horrible, "i'm A Despicable Person And I'm Perverse," And All These Things, To A Sense Of The Power And The Necessity, In A Sense, Of Horror Films And Dealing With Dark Material.

I've Done A Few Interviews Where I Realized That 9/11 Was The Ultimate Home Invasion, Not To Be Glib About It. You Know, Where The Place That You Think Is Safe And The People That You Think Are Safe And Far From Evil Are Suddenly Just Slaughtered By It, And You Have No Control Over It.