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

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 was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

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

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

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.

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

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"!

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.

My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.

Newspapers are horror happening to other people.

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.

'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.

New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for that reason I prefer its horror to this privileged beauty, its enslavement to the freedoms which remain local and privileged and very particularized, and which do not represent a genuine antithesis.

Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

Now that I'm a professional writer it's a little more difficult to enjoy a movie if it's not well done and a lot of the horror movies are not great, but when something's really good, like I really loved The Conjuring. That just scared the bejesus out of me.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there.