Horror Quotes - Page 32

• I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look at what's going on in the America today. The violence is just awful and I think a lot of has to do with what they are showing on the movies and television.

  Richard Matheson

  Believe, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.

  Jordan Peele

  Baby, Mean, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

  Anne Waldman

  Numbness, Culture, Genocide

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

  Daniel Inouye

  Hate, War, Terrible

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Somebody pointed out to me that there's no horror film on my resume, which is true, but I also don't really go see those movies. Although when I was thinking about it, I was thinking "I would probably have a really nice beach house if I made a horror movie." They seem to be very popular. I just don't think it's my thing.

  Suzanne Todd

  Beach, Nice, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in our past. The writer's role is to be a truth sayer. I sincerely believe that each society, each country lives by a particular fantasy vision, a fantasy vision of itself. The truth of how they live is hardly ever faced.

  Clarence Major

  Country, Believe, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the stuff that I'm fascinated by is the stuff that's part of the public imagination of what horror is. The bleakness is a different issue. I think that just stems from my personality. I wish that I offered a little more glimmer of hope sometimes.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always been a horror movie fan, since I was a kid. And I was also a really scared kid. I was easily scared of the dark. One of the ways I would try and get away from my fear of the dark was to pretend like the monsters were my friends.

  Dan Chaon

  Kids, Dark, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What a great unifier getting scared is. Not in an actual threatening, real-world way, but getting scared from horror movies or haunted houses or ghost stories. You laugh because it's a release. People laugh when they're nervous. I laugh so much at a haunted house. It's out of fear, but it's also a wonderful release. Getting scared like that, you feel good, and you feel exhilarated afterwards.

  Kyle Kinane

  People, Laughing, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Mother, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Syria is descending into suicide. It's a horror story and getting worse and worse. There's no bright spot on the horizon. What will probably happen, if this continues, is that Syria will be partitioned into probably three regions; a Kurdish region - which is already forming - that could pull out and join in some fashion the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, maybe with some kind of deal with Turkey.

  Noam Chomsky

  Suicide, Fashion, Kind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

  Katherine Waterston

  Character, Thinking

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way from the studio level, and they're financed and they have movie stars attached and all of that. But a lot of times, the storytelling just doesn't speak to me. It feels like it's still oftentimes coming out of a kind of prescribed notion of normalcy, prescribed notion of gender roles. There's not a lot of "new" seeming to be happening.

  Karyn Kusama

  Interesting, Kind, Speak

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like, the worst. It turns into a ska song even if I'm trying to write like a horror movie sound track or something.

  Dan Deacon

  Song, Writing, Goal

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Indonesian people are living in constant fear, in horror. Often they do not realize it, because this state of mind, this 'living in fear', is considered 'biasa'. This fear, also explains why almost nobody rebels, or is willing to start a rebellion against the regime. People are paralyzed by an abstract fear, which actually has its roots in ignorance and insecurity.

  Andre Vltchek

  Ignorance, People, Insecurity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Some people in Indonesia say they are content, but in fact most of them are miserable. People say they are not poor, even if they take water from the gutter and live in a carton shack. They say they are not afraid, because even the horror they are experiencing every day, is not allowed here to be defined as fear. If it is, the families, the officials, and mass media, mock it.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Water, Miserable

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If I had to pick one scariest thing bout becoming a father, I'd say... the whole thing! From the moment you find out, all the way through the pregnancy, the birth, a new level of fear and horror as a helpless, on-looking bloke and even then when they are out and running about in the world, the fear never ends. It's constant worry, and 'am I doing this right?' and 'why is he making that noise?' and 'has anyone ever died from eating ham?'. It's non-stop.

  Chris Ramsey

  Running, Father, Pregnancy

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• I watched horror movies way too young and one of my favorite horror movies was The Shining. Jack Nicholson's character in that just bore a hole in my brain, his weird, maniacal controlled stuff. Obviously Mara in Village of the Damned wasn't an alcoholic and didn't have emotional, crazy outbursts. She was very non-emotional. But it was that sort of evil that I was tapping into.

  Lindsey Haun

  Crazy, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• In general, working on a horror movie is no different than working on any movie. Turn the camera around and there's 20, 30 people standing around, eating doughnuts, smoking cigarettes between takes, working, like any other set.

  Lindsey Haun

  People, Smoking, Different

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I was really lucky to have an opportunity to direct a horror anthology. It kind of fell into my lap before I was really prepared, which was nice, but I feel like I could've done a lot more in retrospect. So if I do direct again, I'm going to do my homework.

  Lindsey Haun

  Nice, Opportunity, Lucky

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I can't just watch a horror movie and leave it at that. The scary parts just stick with me. It kind of infiltrates my brain and sometimes I can't sleep at night, so usually I don't go and voluntarily watch one.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Sleep, Night, Scary

  Source: dailydead.com

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• What I enjoy the most is portraying villains like a vampire, a serial killer, a supernatural creature, etc... That's when I have the most fun, creating those roles. I also love playing the hero in horror movies, because then I get to really be believable, truthful to feel the terror, the scariness, the horror, and be able to really transmit that to the audiences watching the movie or that TV series.

  Massimo Dobrovic

  Fun, Hero, Serial Killer

  Source: dailydead.com

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• The cool thing about making a Western is that people want to be in them. You rarely get the opportunity. With horror movies you are always trying to convince them. People in horror are always worried it's going to be this schlocky thing, and you're always trying to convince them that it's not. With Westerns, people immediately react with, "Oh, I've always wanted to do one."

  Timothy West

  Opportunity, People, Trying

  "SXSW 2016 Interview: Ti West and Jason Blum Talk IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE". Interview with Jenny Nulf, dailydead.com. March 28, 2016.

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• I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe a novel that grapples with the horrors of World War II as anything but grueling. But Codex Orféo is somehow...well, I hope, riveting for readers. Deeply provocative. Cinematic in a nearly surreal sense.

  Michael Tobias

  War, Writing, Historical

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Film team kept me very, very shielded when I was that young, because of course, I was seven years old. You know, you're still kind of reading. It's still kind of like, "Cat." "Dog." "Ann jumped over fence." So I guess in a way it helped me progress in school, too, because I was reading so much and memorizing so much. But they kept me very shielded from everything that was going on in the The Amityville Horror. I didn't know anything, basically, about the film. I just knew that it was a scary film. I wasn't allowed to watch it. I can watch it now, I'm just too scared.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Dog, Team, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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