Nightmare On Elm Street Quotes by Lin Shaye, Lana Parrilla, Heather Langenkamp, Wes Craven, Jason Reitman, William Shakespeare and many others.
As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I’m in. I thought ‘Dead End’ had a great story; ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe ‘Hansel and Gretel’ a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
Whatever you do….don’t fall asleep.
Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.
When I think of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.
O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
