I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking. Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned.
Interpretation
Wes Craven expresses the challenge of finding an actor with the right intensity for a character like Freddy Krueger.
Wes Craven highlights the difficulty he faced in casting the iconic role of Freddy Krueger, noting that most actors lacked the ferocity he envisioned for the character. This underscores the importance of finding the right fit for creative roles, where intensity and unique interpretations are crucial to bringing complex characters to life.
In practice
In a film studies class discussing character creation, this quote could illustrate the importance of actor-director chemistry.
That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It's an uplifting experience, and there's a sense of elation.
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.
If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.
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.
I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.
Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn't the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn't seen anybody else.
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.
My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
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