Quotes by Robert Englund

• Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.
• You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.
• The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
• The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.
• Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
• Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.
• If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.
• I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.
• I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
• I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.
• I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.
• I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
• I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.
• Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.
• But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.
• Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
• I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.