Horror Quotes - Page 27

• Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Children, Mistake

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

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• When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

  Mila Kunis

  Drama, Character, Play

  "Mila Kunis Interview, Black Swan". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2010.

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• I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.

  A. J. Cook

  Queens, Thinking, Trying My Hardest

  Source: www.ign.com

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• This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, People, Religion

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• What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you’ll know what frightens me.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Horror Genre, Scare

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• At the time I came along, Hollywoods idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

  John Hughes

  Sex, Teenager, Boys

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• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

  Dan Brown

  Mistake, Book, Reading

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• 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.

  John Carpenter

  Work Out, Cinema, Kind

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• The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with too much resentment or too much horror. The man who can think of it with patience is a traitor in his heart and ought to be execrated [denounced] as one who adds the deepest hypocrisy to the blackest treason.

  John Adams

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

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• An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

  Mike Carey

  Book, Excellent, Premises

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• Horror stories have always worked on film. It's where they work. That's where vampires and ghosts and UFOs are real. They're not particularly real in life, but they're real on the screen. It's the communal aspect of movie-watching.

  John Carpenter

  Real, Horror Stories, Vampire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

  Voltaire

  Men, Doctors, Order

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• Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are just two basic stories in horror, two simple ones -- evil is outside and evil is in here [points to his heart].

  John Carpenter

  Heart, Technology, Simple

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Fun, People, Scare

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

  Stephen King

  Fire, Littles, Deer

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• 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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• Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

  Jordan Peele

  Powerful, Real, Issues

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Define the space horizontally rather than vertically in movie widescreen, 2.35:1 just having that rectangular shape and when you think of great horror movies like Halloween and Jaws that just really exploit the space so well and I just think we would have so many more opportunities in creating suspense and shocks.

  David Kirschner

  Halloween, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.

  Eli Roth

  Sex, America, Guy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.

  Susan Hill

  Writing, Thinking, Ghost Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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