John Carpenter Net Worth

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John Carpenter is a film director from America who has made many films in his career. He has been associated with movies of different genres and has also worked as a composer, producer, screenwriter, editor, and musician. Some of his popular films are ‘Escape from New York,’ ‘Starman,’ ‘The Fog,’ ‘Big Trouble in Little China,’ ‘In the Mouth of Madness,’ and ‘They Live.’ Carpenter has also released albums.

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Actor John Carpenter has a networth that has to be considered impressive.

Career

During his time at the School of Cinematic Arts, John Carpenter contributed in the Academy Award-winning short film ‘The Resurrection of Broncho Billy.’ His first movie as a director was ‘Dark Star’ in 1974. In 1976, he came up with the low-budget film ‘Assault on Precinct 13′.

Personal Life

He met actress Adrienne Barbeau on the set of his television movie Somebody’s Watching Me, and the two were married on January 1, 1979. They divorced five years later. In 1990, Carpenter married Sandy King. He has one son.

He was greatly influenced by the works of director Alfred Hitchcock.

Inspirational Quotes by John Carpenter

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

John Carpenter

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

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I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

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From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

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There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.

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