I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.
Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.
John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
