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Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.

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John Carpenter

I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror. ' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.

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The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

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Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

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We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

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Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are just two basic stories in horror, two simple ones -- evil is outside and evil is in here [points to his heart].

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Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching.

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