Horror Quotes - Page 8

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.

All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.

The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements.

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.