Horror Quotes

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking Bad and American Horror Story.

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

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'm not a horror fans as much as I'm a fan of thrillers.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.

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

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

Man's fear of sexuality is the basis of all horror from the male perspective.

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.