John Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father was the head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles, not the University of South Carolina. While there...See full bio »
2010Red Nose, Black Heart
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(writer: "The Fog" excerpt from the soundtrack - uncredited, "Big Trouble in Little China" excerpt from the soundtrack - uncredited)
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamor associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work. If you were suddenly catapulted into that situation -- without any training -- you would say after it was over: "Oh...
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He has always claimed that the Western is his favorite genre but he's never made a full-length film within the genre.
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