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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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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

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

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

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

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

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

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.

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 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'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 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 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'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.

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

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

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

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

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

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

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 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 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.