A Quote by Jason Blum
John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
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Looking back at how I have been selecting my characters, I tried to choose movies with social messages or ones with a unique genre.
I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.
I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite.
All of the John Carpenter movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.
I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.
I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
Every day I receive a lot of messages on Facebook from people of A.P. and Telangana, mostly about songs from my Telugu movies. From the messages, I get a lot of ideas about the music they like.
Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
I wish I was making movies back in the days when John Ford made movies and you were a director under contract to a studio. John Ford had years when he made three movies in a year.
A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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