Top 100 Craven Quotes
#1. I know this kind of girl," Grace was saying. "It's the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up in this, like, greenhorn southern-Californian Asian upper-middle-class ghetto, where everyone is so shallow and money-craven.
Gary Shteyngart
#2. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.
George S. Patton
#3. I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifting stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.
Wes Craven
#4. I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."
Wes Craven
#5. You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.
Wes Craven
#6. Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
Adam Green
#7. I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.
Wes Craven
#8. We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.
It fooled Rincewind.
Terry Pratchett
#9. How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.
Wes Craven
#10. There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.
Wes Craven
#11. You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.
Soren Kierkegaard
#12. I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.
Wes Craven
#14. The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.
Wes Craven
#15. I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
Wes Craven
#16. If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.
Wes Craven
#17. But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.
Wes Craven
#18. You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.
Wes Craven
#20. If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
Wes Craven
#21. the enormity of loss couldnt be born without the promise of something greater
Melissa A. Craven
#22. Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!
Wes Craven
#23. I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.
Wes Craven
#24. The snow will cover me like a thick white blanket. It will be warm under the snow, and if they speak of me they'll have to say I died a man of the NIght Watch. I did. I did. I did my duty. No one can say I foreswore myself I'm fat and I'm weak and I'm craven, but I did my duty.
George R R Martin
#25. I think the 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.
Wes Craven
#26. When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the present that had consumed him-each day with all its chores and never enough hours to do them.
Margaret Craven
#27. Miss Craven held up a pair she thought would fit me - monstrous great things they were, of course, and I thought she smiled as she held them.
Sarah Waters
#29. It's not even a kiss anymore. It's jumping off a building. It's a coke binge. A single slash to the throat. Kissing Leo is like perpetual suicide; I die in her mouth over and over, my hips smacking into hers with all the force of the fall.
Lime Craven
#30. Pain is useless without pleasure. One highlights the other, and the tension that simmers between them is the sweetest of lines to cross.
Lime Craven
#31. The 'Scream' series is unique in that it's an ongoing murder mystery, even though it's a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone.
Wes Craven
#32. You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
Rachel McAdams
#33. Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
Aaron Stanford
#34. I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.
Harvey Pekar
#35. An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.
Christopher Moore
#36. The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.
Wes Craven
#37. I don't know. Is that good-different, or I-should-come-with-a-warning-label-different?
Melissa A. Craven
#38. I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.
Edward Forbes
#39. I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
Wes Craven
#40. This was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed.
Chris Bohjalian
#41. I grew up an only child, which means you can look at my toys - I'll show them off, in fact - but god help you if you lay a finger on them.
Lime Craven
#42. 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?
Wes Craven
#43. Within the structure of 'Scream 4,' there is the film within a film, but that's been part of the 'Scream' franchise since 'Scream 2,' when you had the 'Stab' franchise.
Wes Craven
#44. My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say.
Wes Craven
#45. Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.
Margaret Craven
#46. If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
Wes Craven
#47. Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.
George R R Martin
#48. I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.
Wes Craven
#49. A friend introduced me to Bob Shaye. He was one of the most remarkable men I've ever met. He was a Fulbright scholar, an excellent chef, and very knowledgeable about the arts.
Wes Craven
#50. Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.
Wes Craven
#51. The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice ...
George R R Martin
#52. Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.
Wes Craven
#53. Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
George R R Martin
#54. My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
Wes Craven
#55. What was it like to live in a time when one's fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one's country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid?
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#56. Dear God, Lisa, give me back my peace of mind!
Sara Craven
#57. Where's your crown, Short Stuff?"
"Stuffed in a planter back there with my shoes.
Melissa A. Craven
#59. The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
Peggy Noonan
#60. I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.
Wes Craven
#61. There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.
Wes Craven
#62. My goal is to die in my 90s on the set, say, 'That's a wrap,' after the last shot, fall over dead, and have the grips go out and raise a beer to me.
Wes Craven
#63. I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.
Wes Craven
#64. For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world."
"And that, my lord?"
"Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.
Margaret Craven
#65. Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.
Henry Winkler
#66. It's a pity that virgins can't be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you.
Sara Craven
#68. The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.
Brandon Mull
#70. How can we be so utterly perfect, and you chose the douche who doesn't have the first clue what he has?
Melissa A. Craven
#71. Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.
Margaret Craven
#72. He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.
Margaret Craven
#73. When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
Jack Vance
#74. The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.
Wes Craven
#75. All these formulas are gettin' me a little hot, Davey,
Craven Dix
#77. I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along.
Wes Craven
#78. In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.
Wes Craven
#79. If the fallen lord had ever once lived with a sense of moral goodness in his whole long existence, he had certainly lost it all ... with his craven madness for domination." ~Roe'vaash "Then'diel's SONG
K. Farrell St. Germain
#80. Surely this trial is just for a season. All I need is the strength to endure - to see through the darkness of winter to the promise of spring.
Tracy Leininger Craven
#81. I must have you. We must have each other. You know that, don't you? You're
Sara Craven
#82. 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.
Wes Craven
#83. If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.
Margaret Craven
#84. I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.
Wes Craven
#85. A businessman can be as military as any politician.
Wes Craven
#86. You do remember how dangerous I am with those?"
"Aye, that's the point. Everyone will duck and cover if they see you wielding these."
"Even my teammates?"
"Especially your teammates.
Melissa A. Craven
#87. We can change South Africa on the rugby field
Danie Craven
#88. Fortune favors the bold." I smile weakly.
"So does death," she counters immediately. "The craven tend to live much longer than the heroic.
Melinda Salisbury
#89. Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.
Johnny Depp
#90. I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.
Sam Lipsyte
#91. Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
Wes Craven
#92. Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.
Edgar Allan Poe
#93. But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!
Herman Melville
#94. A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.
Wes Craven
#95. Somebody needs a bath, a steak, and a hack saw, that you very fucking much.
Lime Craven
#96. Your Grace seems out of breath. I do hope you're not being chased by an overly enthusiastic heiress?" "Pack a light bag, Craven," Maximus snapped. "We're going to London to help a murderous lunatic escape from Bedlam.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#97. AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I like dysfunction. Broken people who can't fix each other, but fit together because they're missing the same pieces.
Lime Craven
#98. I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very ... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.
Bill Nighy
#99. Do I want to keep him? Ah, can you ever keep anything? Don't we all have To open our fists eventually, to stretch tired fingers, to allow our palms a taste of new things...?
Lime Craven
#100. My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.
Wes Craven
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