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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Trivia:
Considers it bad luck to wear the hat of the show he's working on. Will not wear a crew cap until the film is over.
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His lead male characters are anti-heroes (e.g., Snake Plissken in the "Escape" films and Napoleon Wilson in
Assault on Precinct 13) whereas the bad guys in his films are usually depicted as zombie-like, mindless, and lacking a personality or emotion. Though many people die in his films, with few exceptions, he usually avoids showing gore.
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