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John Carpenter Quotes and Lessons for Screenwriters

May 15, 2017 by Industrial Scripts

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15 John Carpenter Quotes Writers & Filmmakers Can Learn From John Carpenter entered film wanting to make cowboy films. He claims that horror as a genre found him, not the other way …

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