'Halloween' and 'The Thing' director John Carpenter, 75, reflects on his career, the status of the film industry and his new miniseries 'John Carpenter's Suburban Screams.'
John Carpenter says he had no qualms about dropping out of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema to pursue his film career. 'I knew what I was doing,' the director of horror classics like 1978’s 'Halloween' and 1982’s 'The Thing' told The Associated Press earlier this month. 'I just wanted to get out of there, get on with my career.
His movies are pretty damn good,' Carpenter said, adding that he 'loved' Peele’s most recent film 'Nope.' He added, 'I see horror as a genre that gets reinvented by every generation to fit their generation. You know, I did it with mine. Tobe Hooper and George Romero reinvented it for theirs. It always happens.' He also noted how much has changed technologically in the more than 50 years since he started making movies. 'It’s all different now.
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