Cinema Quote by Roy Blount, Jr Download Open image “Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.” — Roy Blount, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Fine Fine line Fine lines Horror Humor Lines Scary Scary movie Scary movies Thinking
Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I think comedy and horror are very similar in that there's a very direct intention. So you're trying to be funny, or you're trying… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I've always felt that there's a lot of similarity between doing a comedy and doing a scary movie because jokes and scares are all… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Horror movies feel like comedies when you're making them because everybody laughs so much. — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers'… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part. — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
