Audience Quote by Ti West

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

You must worry about the truth of your characters and that it fits your vision. The rest will come naturally if you've done your…

— Juan Antonio Bayona

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

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

What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible…

— Fede Alvarez

Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I think. But…

— Reece Shearsmith

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

The most fun part of making a horror movie is watching it with an audience.

— Leigh Whannell

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

“The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as…

— Sam Raimi