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Born
January 16, 1948 · Carthage, New York, USA

Birth name
John Howard Carpenter

Spouses
Sandy King (December 1, 1990 – present)

QUOTES:

Things haven’t been going great lately. For a while now people haven’t really been getting my movies. Certainly the box office hasn’t been up to speed. Sure, some of my recent stuff hasn’t been perfect, but neither has it been the shit that many have said. Critically, it’s all become a bit of a crapshoot. The critics thought I was a bum when I started out and they think I’m a bum now.

[on why he passed on Fatal Attraction (1987)] There wasn’t a grain of originality in it – it was Play Misty for Me (1971) with Michael Douglas filling in for Clint Eastwood. Also, the original version, the script I read, had Glenn Close winning in the end by killing herself and thereby getting the moral upper hand. I knew the audience was never going to buy that. The audience was always gonna want to see the wife shoot the bitch. Sure enough, they shot the original script, previewed it, got booed off screen and went back and shot the ending you see today. That was a journey I couldn’t be bothered to go on.