When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw 'The Bad Seed' instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails.
I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.
We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.
Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
You have to get your hands dirty. You've got to really deliver the goods, and when you do, you can get something really special.
The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.
Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.
People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you...it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.
I know there really is someone out there for everyone.
Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.
I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.
I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.
I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that stuff scares me.
I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other kinds of people and that may be what you like. People get in that mindset and put their blinders on.
With all the new technology, DVD's, Blu-Ray's, NetFlex, everyone has access to older movies. There is a new generation now of Freddy fans. Fathers that saw the movie originally, these guys are dads now, and they let their kids watch them.
Sometimes we spend our money on something we think is gonna be great, and the titles shall remain nameless, but they're just a little disappointing.
I love the fans, and I respect the fans, and I want them to go out and support movies.
Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.
There's a lot of dark horror, and a lot of sci-fi fantasy that's great, but what gets hyped a lot the big stuff. The most expensive stuff gets hyped a lot, and I love it, don't get me wrong, but there's things that fall through the cracks.
The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.
I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.
I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.
