I Think The Important Thing

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.

Horror Films Don't Create Fear. They Release It.

There Was A Generation Of Kids Who Were Just Kind Of Emulating Distant Heroes And Wearing Peace Symbols, And Parents Who Were Thinking Of Themselves As Liberal And Removed From Barbarity, But It Also Was The Era Of Vietnam. I Very Much Was Influenced - And I Think The Whole Country Was Kind Of In A State Of Shock - For The First Time Seeing The Horror And Cruelty Of War.

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.

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.