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John Carpenter

… just a poor director trying to get by in this terrible world.

Photograph: Sacred Bones

John Carpenter:

'Could I succeed if I started today? No. I’d be rejected'

Interview by Lanre Bakare

The horror master, releasing a new album of film scores,

talks John Wayne, why he never watches his movies,

and having his work co-opted by neo-Nazis

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