Horror Quotes - Page 18

• The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

  Henry Miller

  Enemy, Quality, Realizing

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.

  John Carpenter

  Loss, Horror Genre, Vices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

  John Piper

  Reality, Water, Heaven

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.

  Richard Price

  War, Lying, Writing

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• Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

  John Carpenter

  Found, Movie Business

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love horror movies. A good horror movie is always great.

  Tara Reid

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tara Reid Gets Scary With Incubus". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 27, 2006.

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• With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view it as a film about the mysteries of faith. It's easier for people to call it a horror film. Or a great horror film. Or the greatest horror film ever made. Whenever I see that, I feel a great distance from it.

  William Friedkin

  Distance, Views, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

  Phillip Adams

  Civilization, People, Atheism

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• 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.

  John Carpenter

  Holiday, Careers, Killers

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• There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.

  David Kirschner

  Brother, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does.

  John Carpenter

  Country, Thinking, Silent Films

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  People, Insane, Remember

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.

  Danny Dyer

  Scare, Rubbish, Scripts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing.

  Emily Browning

  Scare, Goes On, Kind

  "Exclusive: Emily Browning Takes Us Into the Uninvited". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing SCREAM QUEENS. We hope to create a whole new genre - comedy-horror - and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.

  Ryan Murphy

  Queens, Writing, Ideas

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• Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Film

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• I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Horror Stories, Guy

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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

  Eli Roth

  People, Want, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

  Paul Kane

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.

  China Mieville

  Writing, Horror Stories, Creating

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Ignorance, Thinking, Average

  Karl A. Menninger (1953). “the Human Mind”

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• A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.

  Tony Burgess

  Fall, Thinking, Rocks

  "The book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

  Philippe Claudel

  Pain, Successful, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Well, outside of the tone, the big thing that I gained from working on horror film was how to shoot really quickly with no money. I learned how to be able to go into a production and know exactly what shot I need to get and how the shot needs to look and what performance I need to get out of the talent at a very quick pace.

  Deon Taylor

  Able, Tone, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dark, Drawing, Ghost Stories

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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