Horror Film Quotes - Page 8

• What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared because you're so invested in the characters, you're almost forgetting that oh my God, this is about to scare me.

  Katie Holmes

  Character, Scare, Classic

  "Guillermo del Toro and Katie Holmes Interview DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 22, 2011.

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• Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

  Tom Six

  Art, Fun, Believe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• [I was] feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the power and the necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material.

  Wes Craven

  Dark, Feelings, Done

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.

  Wes Craven

  Powerful, Trying, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.

  Wes Craven

  Art, Thinking, Europe

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• When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.

  Nicolas Cage

  Art, Character, Opportunity

  "Nicolas Cage has some thoughts on the state of modern film criticism" by William Hughes, www.avclub.com. August 14, 2015.

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• My brother and I are huge fans of foreign horror. Some of the most interesting movies are coming from overseas. I guess if there was one change we'd like to see, it would be more original horror films made by the studio system and less of a reliance on remakes.

  Michael Rasmussen

  Brother, Interesting, Fans

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and terror, grotesque and maniacal. These films calmed me and made me feel more connected in my experiences.

  Tony Burgess

  Kids, Panic, Firsts

  Interview with Jonathan Ball, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

  Donald Glover

  Falling In Love, Love You, Goal

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Scripts, Horror, Film

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• I find that usually when I watch something like horror film, I'm constantly thinking no, it's not going to happen.

  Katie Holmes

  Thinking, Watches, Horror

  "Guillermo del Toro and Katie Holmes Interview DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 22, 2011.

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• It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

  John Carpenter

  Looks, Rooms, Tongue

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• Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

  Martin Henderson

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

  Park Chan-wook

  Heart, Coward, Violence

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• Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Dark, Science

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.

  Hayley Williams

  Jesus, Gay, Sunday

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• I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.

  George A. Romero

  Thinking, Creepy, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.

  Ingrid Pitt

  Thinking, Childhood, Awful

  "Ingrid Pitt obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.

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• Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

  Dario Argento

  Psychology, Horror, Film

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• Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Friday, Pakistan, Horror

  "Real Life Terror Reflects An Author's Imagination". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 14, 2010.

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• I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

  Amber Heard

  Thinking, Amber, Saws

  "'The Stepfather' Star Amber Heard Describes Her Terrifying Gamble to Bare It All". Interview with Toni Hartshorn, www.amc.com. October 2010.

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• I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

  Anna Kendrick

  Queens, Games, White

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

  Jeri Ryan

  Kids, Fans, Horror

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• I really liked The Children of Corn, believe it or not. And Rosemary's Baby - yeah, exactly. I've always loved it. Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

  Alexandra Breckenridge

  Baby, Children, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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