Horror Quotes · Page 45

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

— Drew Goddard

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in…

— Timothy Dalton

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

— Donald Pleasence

“Sin is like mold—the longer it lives, the blacker it becomes. And spores can’t be avoided. Never.”

— Aaron Dries

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

— Rob Zombie

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good…

— Ingrid Pitt

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

— Ryuhei Kitamura

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

— Roy Lee

Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not…

— John Carpenter

I know that Wes Craven feels watching horror films does have a psychological effect, in a good way. It is very cathartic.…

— Marley Shelton

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three…

— Douglas Groothuis

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I…

— Vanessa Hudgens

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a…

— Arik Roper

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take…

— Ti West

What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a…

— Christopher Denham

I know I can elicit a wide range of reactions from audience members. I know I can make people scream with horror…

— Sarah Sherman

By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.…

— Stephen King

Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is…

— Ernesto Sabato

No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral…

— Barry Lopez

“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it;…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Indonesian people are living in constant fear, in horror. Often they do not realize it, because this state of mind, this 'living…

— Andre Vltchek

“The clear stars before him took to shuddering and he knew why; they shuddered at sight of what was behind him. He…

— Clemence Housman

Laura won’t hurt you,” I said, wrestling him for control. “She’s one of the sweetest ghosts I ever met. She just likes…

— Karen Chance

I do watch a lot of horror movies, so not a lot of things scare me anymore.

— Milly Shapiro

I just wanted to be a part of something that's a horror movie that scares you.

— Michael Pena

“Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed.”

— Milkweed L. Augustine

“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”

— Thomas Scopel

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films…

— Aimee Teegarden

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

— Scott Derrickson

I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get…

— Tara Reid

I did not growing up watching a lot of horror. I wasn't allowed a lot of it and I was a real…

— Mike Flanagan

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

— Eli Roth

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

— Elisha Cuthbert

The greatest horror in the world is not finding a monster but finding out you are the monster.

— Anonymous

“And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him.”

— Richard Wright

It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

— Guillermo del Toro

“Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.”

— Alistair Cross

I wanna do mystery, I wanna do sci-fi, I wanna do horror, and I wanna do all of those things.

— Misha Green

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

— Ellen Glasgow