Wes Craven's biography

Wes Craven is 76 years old film director born at Cleveland. He was born on Wednesday 2nd of August 1939. According to year of birth 1939 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 2nd of August means he is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.He was married 3 times.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. He is an adherent of atheism. His primary profession is to be film director. You can know him also as film producer, screenwriter, actor, camera operator, television director, television producer, film editor. He is recently known as film actor.

Wes Craven's family

Wes Craven's ex spouses

Mimi Craven

Wes Craven and Mimi Craven have been together since 1984 for 3 years. She is known as actor.

Iya Labunka

Wes Craven and Iya Labunka have been together since 2004 for 11 years. She is known as film producer.

Bonnie Broecker

Wes Craven and Bonnie Broecker have been together since 1964 for 5 years.

He has 1 son.

Wes Craven's son: Jonathan Craven

Wes Craven's son's name is Jonathan Craven. He is known as screenwriter. His son was born on Saturday 20th of March 1965 in New Castle.

Wes Craven's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Johns Hopkins University, Wheaton College.

Wes Craven's career

His main focus is to be film director. He is famous thanks to Tina Gray.

How did Wes Craven die

He died on on Sunday 30th of August 2015 when he was 76 years old at Los Angeles. Wes Cravens death was caused by brain cancer. It happend like natural causes.

What Wes Craven has done for a first time

He nearly turned down the option to direct the hit Scream (1996) because the first scene with Drew Barrymore reminded him too vividly of the climax sequence of The Last House on the Left (1972), his first film.
His first film, 'The Last House on the Left' was a rape shocker and was banned in Britain.
Starting as a messenger he became an assistant editor to Sean Cunningham, who later made 'Friday the 13th, and gave Wes the chance to write and direct his first film, 'The House on the Left' in 1972.
His first hit was with 'The Hills Have Eyes in 1977.

Wes Craven's quotes

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.
Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it's good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.
Certainly the deepest horror, as far as I'm concerned, is what happens to your body at your own hands and others.
"If we don't get out of Iraq soon, it'll be like A Nightmare on Elm Street" (April 2007)
If I were interested in reality, I'd be making documentaries.
There is rage in my films, but it's a complete matrix. Sone could be directed at my father, a scary figure.
A producer said, 'Make a horror movie'. I said 'I've never seen one.' He said, 'You're a fundamentalist, you must have demons rattling around.
[on A nightmare on Elm Street having sequels] I thought they'll never be a sequel. Boy was I stupid.
[on his 1999 movie Music of the Heart] That's my mom's favorite movie of mine, because it was the only one she saw. It was something that I was really drawn to. Horror films are not me, or they're not all of me. They're a very thin slice of me.
[on his 1996 movie Scream] It's almost on a comic book level as far as the danger. And also kind of soap opera-ish.
For me with all this stuff, both the horror films and thrillers like this, the most interesting thing is what goes on inside people's heads.
The horrors of retirement. These are scarier than any horror movie I can dream up.
'Happy wife, happy life' is a mantra it seems unwise to ignore.
Certainly the deepest horror, as far as I'm concerned, is what happens to your body at your own hands and others.
What you want to do is you want to put your audience off-balance. 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.
It seems like all the powerful people on earth just want to build condos and knock down all the trees... As somebody once said with wonderful succinctness, the golf course is man's boot on the neck of nature.
Horror movies have to show us something that hasn't been shown before so that the audience is completely taken aback. You see, it's not just that people want to be scared; people are scared.
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.
[on his 1995 movie Vampire in Brooklyn]: "I thought it was good, fun little film and it was nice to get a chance to do comedy but i think the script really hampered it".
[on Sandra Peabody] I'm trying to think which of those actors had acted before. I think maybe Sandra Peabody had one role, and I believe the others had not.
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