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I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. -- Guillermo del Toro
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote. -- Casper Van Dien
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films. -- Pam Grier
Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah. -- Neil Marshall
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept. -- Donald Pleasence
At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there. -- Donald Pleasence
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. -- Dario Argento
I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game. -- David Cronenberg
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. -- Drew Goddard
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. -- John Leguizamo
I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite. -- Rob Lowe
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others -- Guillermo del Toro
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote -- Casper Van Dien
If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one. -- Drew Goddard
My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984. -- Adam Green

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