"I had a dream, as happens quite often in my work. The dream was that Freddy and a whole bunch of us from New Line were at a cocktail party. Robert Englund was there in costume, acting like the burlesque Freddy that I felt he had become, and I felt in the dream that in the background was a shadowy figure that was moving parallel to Robert - his own darker shadow, completely apart from that party and it felt very frightening. I awoke with that and was trying to puzzle out what this dream might mean, when it occurred to me that when I wrote A Nightmare on Elm Street I was trying to account for something in human nature, in the human race, that had been here since day one and went all the way back to Cain and Abel, one half of humanity rising up to club the other, running
right up to events in the world today."
- Wes Craven
From: Screams & Nightmares, The Films of Wes Craven
