Fancy Quote by Richard Wilbur

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

— Lisa Gardner

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

— Scott Derrickson

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

— August Strindberg

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

— Michael Ende

Real things don't frighten me just the ones in my mind do.

— Francesca Woodman

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on…

— Bruno Dumont

When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten;…

— Larry Fessenden

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating…

— Matt Reeves

If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.

— Sam Neill

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

— Anonymous

I don't know what frightens me more

— Gregory David Roberts

The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again…

— Robert Englund