Carpenter Quotes

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.