Wes Craven earned himself the title "master of horror" for good reason. The filmmaker's career boasted no shortage of genre and cult classics, among them A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes, The Twilight Zone, and a whole franchise of Scream movies.
Craven's family released a statement this past weekend that the celebrated filmmaker passed away in his home in Los Angeles on Sunday at the age of 76. The cause, reports the New York Times, was brain cancer.
In the moving interview below, Craven humbly describes his process as a filmmaker. "I have a very sort of ambivalent view of myself as an artist or as a filmmaker," he says.
"Somebody once when I was first starting in films in New York said, 'If you want something on your gravestone in the film business, I think the best thing is filmmaker. If you can honestly say that, that's all you need to say.' I think I would like that on my gravestone, that and 'Whatever you do, don't fall asleep,'" he added, citing one of the most iconic lines from his seminal A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Craven is survived by his wife, film producer Iya Labunka, his sister Carol Buhrow, his two children and stepdaughter, and three grandchildren.
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h/t: The New York Times/The Los Angeles Times
