Horror Quotes · Page 54

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

— Scott Ian

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

— J. J. Abrams

Nobody tried comedy in horror, and when I tried it ladies came to the theatre.

— Raghava Lawrence

If we were in a scary movie, you'd be the one to die first. The dumb blonde is always first.

— Anonymous

I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror

— Guillermo del Toro

“Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.”

— Mike Mignola

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

— Uwe Boll

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

— Glen Duncan

“River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as…

— April Genevieve Tucholke

“When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only…

— Cedric Nye

“But it bothers you. It pisse you off that I'm not crippled with debt or saddled with some moody bitch. Instead, you…

— Adam Neville

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

“And fight them until there is no persecution, religion is only for Allah. But if they desist, then there should be no…

— Compton Gage

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not…

— David J. C. MacKay

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate…

— Wallace Shawn

I love horror movies, I wish I would get more roles to do more horror movies. I got to make a living…

— Nick Damici

I've always said that with a lot of the horror franchises that I've started, it's like directing a pilot. I come in,…

— James Wan

“Most modern men want sex and can’t have it. They want success and never get it. They want money and never earn…

— Barbie Wilde

“I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach…

— Rebecca Clare Smith

“Despite wanting me to end her life, after a short while, Mrs Sloan fought back with surprising strength for such a small…

— Eli Wilde

“Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate.…

— Stephen King

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid.…

— John Carpenter

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy…

— Derrick Jensen

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence…

— Connie Willis

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

— Dodie Smith

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

— Clive Barker

If I'm going to direct a horror movie, I'd have to be the one writing it, because I have to make it…

— Pollyanna McIntosh

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

— William Friedkin

I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

— Thomas Paine

I've only seen a couple horror movies in my lifetime. I don't like the ones that make you scream out in terror.

— Megan Charpentier

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

“The sky is stained red with the blood of a thousand dying sacrifices.”

— Kelan Gerriety

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

— Jason Patric

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

— Charles Bukowski

“And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him.”

— Bram Stoker

I think [Doctor Strange] it is - it does tap into a supernatural type of genre that is not horror.

— Kevin Feige

Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.

— Kirk J. Schneider

“I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.”

— Justin Alcala

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

— Alain de Botton