Horror Quotes - Page 3

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

Horror and moral terror are your friends.

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.

Nothing is more natural to me than horror.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A. and trying to be an actor, and their dreams are crushed, and they end up working for the IRS. So they were always protective to the point that they wanted me to have a backup plan, which is understandable, but there was always something inside of me that knew: backup plan, schmackup plan.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas.

Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

Even smiling makes my face ache.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.