I do a lot of stuff in my career, but I like to keep a hand in horror.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.

I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments.

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

...I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, ...

Truth is the safest lie.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

Fashion brings out what you are inside. A lot of people think it's got to be blue jeans, a Black coat, three inch heels. But it doesn't have to be like that. I enjoy just going for it

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.