Art Quote by Scott Derrickson

I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of getting at…

— Scott Derrickson

When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers.…

— Frank Wildhorn

What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.

— Chris Van Allsburg

“In Gothic fiction, characters must contend with the dead, with active hauntings or with hallucinations of hauntings, as well as whatever other trying circumstances…

— Brenda Walker

I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It…

— Ari Aster

“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff'…

— Siouxsie Sioux

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

— Eli Roth

If you go back and look at those films, movies like 'Bambi' and 'Pinocchio,' there are elements that are incredibly dark. Yet no one…

— Travis Knight

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think…

— Stephen King

If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents…

— Stephen McCauley

Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching…

— James Purefoy