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

...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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

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

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

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

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

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

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is The Shining. I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

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

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

I was shooting Beyond Redemption, I started shooting American Horror Story, so I was going back and forth between Northern California and LA. That was not bad at all - that flight is like getting on the subway, it's nothing. And then during rehearsals.

I was very scared when I saw it, because Dune was for me very important in my life. I was very sad I could not do it. When I saw that David Lynch would do it, I was very scared, because I admire him as a movie-maker, and I thought he would do well. But when I see the picture, I realize he never understood this picture. It's not a David Lynch picture. It's the producer who made that picture, no? Who made this horror. For David Lynch, it was a job. A commercial job. It never was that for me.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

"Jack Reacher" was easy because the function of the villain was just to spread fear and horror.

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent. Especially with the main title, my job is to convince the audience to take the leap into the film even though their better sense is telling them, "I should put my popcorn down and get the hell outta here"!

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.