Horror Quotes - Page 35

• I'm trying to keep it fresh for me. I'm just trying to not bore myself. And if I can do a detective novel, and if I can do a horror novel, then why do it again? To keep the work challenging I have to keep moving.

  Colson Whitehead

  Moving, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved to fear the monstrous, to be very wary of large, unknown, life-threatening forces. In art, we can play with these things in ways that allow us to feel the intensity of the horror, but in "safe mode," if you like, detached from real consequences.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Real, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of intense negative feelings - say, in horror films or tragedies as intense as King Lear - but we come out feeling richer. We've lived to the fullest, we've tested ourselves in these environments.

  Brian Boyd

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've been fortunate in that the films I've worked on in the horror genre are themselves not pure horror, and have allowed me to write in a wide variety of styles. Those scores contain elements of fantasy, drama, action, comedy... really all types of scoring, and that gives the horror moments more impact. As for scoring the horror moments, I do like approaching the music from the psychological aspect, scoring to the characters' thoughts, emotions, motivations and such.

  Douglas Pipes

  Motivation, Drama, Writing

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always been interested in the writers who care about their sentences and who really work on that level. I have always said that I hate writing, I love revision. So, the language is really important to me. And the comedy and the horror that come out of the language.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Teacher, Hate, Writing

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• In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held in slavery and then as human chattel to satisfy the financial indebtedness of a Catholic institution. Nonetheless, the university must also put into place - as it is attempting to do - a program that both admits the horror and error of its past actions and directs its students, faculty, and administrations to an awareness of the dignity of all people, especially those who even today are often considered less than worthy of respect and dignity.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Past, People, Catholic

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• What I like is horror movies, including '80s slasher movies that politically I have all kinds of problems with. Which is an interesting balance, because I have this leftist puritan strain that, well, if you like something that goes against your politics, maybe you should train yourself not to like it. But I know that I like horror movies and that's what I watch when I get a moment.

  John Darnielle

  Interesting, Balance, Kind

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview With Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Horror movies are always a solid dollar. But a movie about Groucho Marx is a gamble. These things just are. Doesn't matter who you are.

  Rob Zombie

  Who You Are

  Interview with Andrew Paul, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the world that when I'm actually going to read for pleasure, it's always something ridiculous about a dragon. I'm so saturated with the injustice and torment of the real world that it's really hard for me to get myself to read anything that's even set in our universe, because I'm exhausted by our universe.

  Lindy West

  Real, World, Ridiculous

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• I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

  Avey Tare

  School, Warrior, Thinking

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• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  J. J. Abrams

  Issues, Monsters, Fiction

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

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• I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

  Dario Argento

  Years, Long, Style

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• I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

  Adam Arkin

  Thinking, Chance, Isolation

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

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

  Rick Baker

  Fiction, Tvs, Born

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• For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

  Lynda Barry

  Color, Add, Film

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• Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

  Lynda Barry

  Realistic, Enjoy, Bits

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• Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hands, Lines, Lasts

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• France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Use, France, Facts

  "Baudelaire as a literary critic".

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• I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

  Josh Billings

  Stay Strong, Home, Thinking

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• I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

  William Peter Blatty

  Police, Stories, Detectives

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

  Robert Bly

  Love Is, Emptiness

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• For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, Four, Months

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• Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol, Drug

  "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, Grove Press, (p. 201), 1959.

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• Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

  William S. Burroughs

  Giving Up, Special, Way

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.179, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

  Carter Burwell

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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