Horror Quotes · Page 48

“He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.”

— Joe Hill

“What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.”

— Algernon Blackwood

I have plenty of scripts and ideas and all that that are not horror films.

— Ti West

I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.

— Colin Trevorrow

“I don't even like horror movies. The world has enough real monsters without creating fictional monsters.”

— Lisa Renee Jones

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

“You are fifty different kinds of twisted." "Only fifty? Val, you wound me.”

— Nenia Campbell

“No shifting in my car Blake,I don't want slobber all over my seats." Neesa”

— C.T. Todd

I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be…

— Nicholas Sparks

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story,…

— Juno Temple

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

A viewer's imagination is a powerful storyteller, and can often come up with things way more frightening than what you can explicitly…

— Mike Flanagan

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I…

— Jonathan Levine

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Concerted voices of heartfelt petitions in Arabic all pleading for divine intervention are abruptly silenced as the drone ensures fatalities by injecting…

— Anonymous

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads…

— Rob Lowe

I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of…

— Ari Aster

In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare…

— Cindy Sherman

Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand…

— Sophie Scholl

Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all…

— Tasha Tudor

Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that…

— Oren Peli

Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul…

— Anonymous

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue,…

— Anonymous

Syria is descending into suicide. It's a horror story and getting worse and worse. There's no bright spot on the horizon. What…

— Noam Chomsky

The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.

— Leigh Whannell

I've been a huge horror fan since I was about eight years old, which is a little bit young to be watching…

— Alexandra Breckenridge

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

— Zadie Smith

“Life's truest horror is a door that slams shut that can never be opened again.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

— Poppy Z. Brite

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

— Guillermo del Toro

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

— Luke Ford

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares.

— Danielle Panabaker

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

— Eli Roth

Frankly, I love 'Scream': I think it's one of the great scary/funny movies.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

“The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'. These are called true stories.”

— Moonshine Noire

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

— Rick Baker

“Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smells blood…

— Pamela K. Kinney Southern Haunts Devils in the Darkness

“Eche, eche, AB32, CD54, EF76, Amanda thought as she kissed Steven. At any moment, she would either kill or transform him.”

— Howard Dunkley

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

— Jason Reitman