"They (New Line) came back to me for number three and asked me if I wanted to direct. I was just completing "Deadly Friend", so I wasn't available, but I mentioned an idea they liked, so I (and writing partner Bruce Wagner) wrote the script. The reality was that New Line Cinema never really contacted me again after they had the script. They changed it quite drastically in some ways. The director and a friend of his rewrote it and changed the names of all the characters, and included several key scenes of their own. A lot of the reasons I had agreed to do the picture were taken away."
- Wes Craven
"I know that Craven and Wagner had done four drafts of this thing, but we only saw the final draft, and that's what Chuck Russell and I worked from. We locked ourselves away in Big Bear to get away from the phones and wrote it in eleven days."
- Frank Darabont
From: Screams & Nightmares, The Films of Wes Craven
