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I'm not real huge on horror films, but there's something really special about this.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way from the studio level, and they're financed and they have movie stars attached and all of that. But a lot of times, the storytelling just doesn't speak to me. It feels like it's still oftentimes coming out of a kind of prescribed notion of normalcy, prescribed notion of gender roles. There's not a lot of "new" seeming to be happening.

I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the sense of the genre known for it. It was more a type of pigeon-holing in bookshops.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

In general, working on a horror movie is no different than working on any movie. Turn the camera around and there's 20, 30 people standing around, eating doughnuts, smoking cigarettes between takes, working, like any other set.

In my own personal time, horror films freak me out too much, so I tend to steer clear of watching horror films on my own.

I remember when I went to a gallery in Paris at one point, they had drawings of earthworks set in different places. I asked the person sitting at the gallery desk where these works were - where in France they could be found. She looked at me in horror as if I'd asked something completely insane. She said, "Well, of course, these works don't actually exist. They're concepts.

I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

I think when the joke comes from the situation in a horror film, it's really great. I don't like jokey horror films like where people are cracking a joke or being post-modern about it.

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

I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once.

It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put a naked man on screen, everyone freaks out.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.

I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life, don't have the stomach for it because I spend so much time in it.

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.