horror Quotes

The year runs to its end in horror.

I do a lot of horror films, and my skin cannot stand stage blood. I have instant breakouts every time. That\'s why I started doing more than the bare minimum with washing my face and staying hydrated.

Horror sets are the most fun sets you\'ll ever be on. I feel like people who work on horror typically are fans of horror. They love it. They live for it. They have all the best film references. It\'s pure entertainment. You\'re not trying to overly impress anybody. You\'re just trying to give people good time.

We watch horror films to take a break from reality.

Soviet horror film \"House with Privileges\".

...my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .' \"I've never much cared for horror stories.

I would love to make a horror picture!

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality.

One of the most notable traits of the Mexican\'s character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

[British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly cruel twist. A good example is the episode with Burgess Meredith and there\'s a nuclear war and he drops his glasses. To this day, you can show that to anyone and they\'ll go \"Bwrrrrrrrr!\" You know, sort of wander away shuddering.

My kids are very young. I\'m sure there\'s a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.

I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like \'Tales of the Unexpected,\' \'Hammer House of Horror,\' \'The Twilight Zone\' and \'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.\'

The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, \'It\'s working,\' \'It\'s not working,\' but generally, I think if you make a good movie that\'s scary, people will come.

I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn\'t make them.

With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

I\'m not interested in making horror-comedies, but I\'m very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.

My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.

I wasn\'t a fanboy of horror. I didn\'t grow up on horror movies. I grew up loving all movies. I still love all movies, but I particularly love scary movies - as much for the culture around them as the movies themselves.

People don\'t call them horror movies, but Hitchcock, for me, is my favorite storyteller. He was really exploring dark themes, and I don\'t know what category you put his movies in. Thriller? Horror? Some of them go in either one.

One of my favorite things about making horror movies is, the first time you screen them in front of an audience, it\'s very fun to hear people audibly react to the work you put into a movie. You don\'t wonder at the end of the movie whether it worked or not.

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he\'s a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing \'Sinister.\' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it\'d be really scary on set.

I didn\'t grow up loving horror.

The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren\'t the tricky part. If you\'re involved in what\'s going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you\'re not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.

Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.

I liked stuff like \'Halloween,\' but I wasn\'t a horror fanatic until I was in my 30s and then made \'Paranormal Activity.\' Now, having a company, I can\'t imagine doing anything else. But it took me a while to find my love for it.

When there\'s a great horror movie, people are like, \'Horror\'s back!\' And when there\'s a series of not so good ones, \'Horror\'s dead.\' I think it\'s all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.

My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They\'ve pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.

I don\'t like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don\'t see anybody who\'s using it as allegory.

There are very few horror films that I think are worth their salt.