Character Quote by Kevin Williamson

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most…

— Ti West

In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've gotta have…

— Robert Englund

Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they…

— Stephen King

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

— Larry Cohen

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

— Jordan Peele

My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

The best horror walks a line that's completely on a psychological level, not needing the typical tropes of traditional horror filmmaking, then also having…

— Karyn Kusama

I think you just have to give the audience a character that they can relate to. So I'm always trying to put a character…

— Ti West

Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters.…

— Kelley Armstrong

I've been fortunate in that the films I've worked on in the horror genre are themselves not pure horror, and have allowed me to…

— Douglas Pipes

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not…

— Jane Goldman

In some ways, the audience becomes complacent when they go to a horror film. And so it's fun to take that attitude and then…

— Ari Aster