American Quote by Mark Fisher

The Eighties were the last decade where the actual filmmaking was still treated with some respect, even if it was horror.

— Ti West

It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut…

— Alfonso Cuaron

“I think horror can and should be classy. I enjoy seeing it raised up not lowered down to the lowest common denominator. There's prejudice…

— Carole Gill

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening…

— Ben Hecht

I think, somewhat historically, for me, the people who like my movies the most are people that are on the fence about horror.

— Ti West

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

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Drew Goddard

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

— Ben Hecht

It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow…

— Asghar Farhadi

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched…

— Poppy Z. Brite

The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they…

— Ben Wheatley

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

— Neil Marshall